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[deleted] OP t1_jegte92 wrote

Reply to comment by Apprehensive_Park951 in Hot take: ABS keycaps are more comfortable for typing by [deleted]

I guessing I’m confused? I used my friend’s Ducky keyboards as a comparison and the ABS way much smoother than the PBT across several Ducky keyboards. Are you saying Ducky chooses to give their ABS keycaps less texture than PBT keycaps? Like I could guess which ones were ABS and which were PBT based on feel alone.

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Apprehensive_Park951 t1_jegupkj wrote

The just means the molds used for the abs caps are either newer or just smoother than the pbt ones. The texture right out of the box is not an indication of plastic material. And once both ABS and PBT shine and lose texture (they both do, pbt just takes a little longer) they’ll feel pretty similar. It’s better to say you just like smooth keycaps more than you do rough ones, rather than saying you like abs more than pbt, as it’s not mutually exclusive. If you’d like I can name the usual texture of several keycap manufacturers.

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