Glorious Ocean PBT Keycaps

Given we saw first-party accessories to the GMMK PRO, including a coiled cable, replacement rotary knobs, and even replacement switch plates, it is no surprise that Glorious sells keycap sets, too. There are doubleshot ABS keycaps which shipped with the original GMMK available for $25 in black or white, pudding-style doubleshot PBT keycaps for $35 in black or white, or the more custom-colored GPBT keycap sets for $50. Seven options are available, and we have the GBPT Ocean, which ships inside a matching box for the theme that is good attention to detail. Renders of the keycaps are on the front and back with the company logo and product name seen alongside marketing features on the sides, and a fabric hook at the top and two seals on the sides need to be removed to access the items inside.


Four plastic blister packs host the various keycaps, and of course one of those info notes has been put on top. The boxes are two-piece with both the lid and the base numbered 1-4 to indicate what goes where. Unfortunately, there is not much logic to where the keycaps go, with part of a US ANSI keycap row going through a row of the box and on to the next before the next keycap row begins somewhere else entirely. A few extra keycaps to conform to the more-wanting keyboard form factors are included as well, such as the 75% GMMK PRO itself.


Here is a look at the entire keycap set as well as the sizes of the 114 keycaps. The GPBT keycap sets are all thick PBT plastic with dye sublimed legends, which means there is no backlighting support at all. So the south-facing LEDs on the GMMK PRO matter for naught anyway. The Ocean keycap set goes through shades of blue in an attempt to induce memories of a deep water-body going through "deep sea indigo and bubble blue" as the company puts it. There are the standard 104 keycaps expected for a full-size US ANSI layout, with the ten additional keycaps catering to different form factors, which came in quite handy here.


We get the same cheap plastic orange keycap puller that came with the GMMK PRO and I have even more of an issue with its inclusion over the metal wire keycap puller here since the keycaps are the actual purchase. Going back to the keycaps, we see three different blue base colors, and the legends are dye-sublimed in black. The keycaps are going to be very durable thus, and also won't easily develop a shine with finger oils as would, say, thin ABS keycaps. As per the company, the legends are in a proprietary font designed with "enhanced readability and a flair of sophistication" in mind.