Packaging and Accessories

Interesting! I was perhaps expecting to see a product box similar to what we saw on the Skyloong-manufactured Epomaker Lite keyboard before with the lighter blue and yellow accent, but clearly Skyloong has updated its brand ID and logo too. We get a thick cardboard box using a dark blue color scheme that in turn has a subtle Skyloong logo on the front, along with the product name and a neat render showing off the different modules on offer here. There isn't much of interest on the back or sides except for a sticker confirming the exact SKU inside if you are able to read Mandarin, and a double flap in the middle that helps keep the contents inside in their place on their way to you.


It's a good thing too because Skyloong has packed a lot of things here! There is some paperwork in the form of some social media interaction and a quick start guide but you would be better off seeing the translated version here instead. The keyboard itself comes with a hard plastic cover on top that can be used as a dust cover when it is not in use, and then inside a wax paper wrap to make for a pristine and dust-free unboxing experience. It's also placed between two thick foam pieces for added protection and the various accessories are underneath a separate compartment to the top. These include a set of screws, spacers, and silicone washers for reasons we will get to soon enough two replacement knurled aluminium knob covers, a USB female Type-C to female Type-A adapter, and spare switches of the same kind used on the keyboard itself.


That mounting kit comes in handy with this split space bar module that allows you to have three shorter keys instead of one longer space bar key as usual. These come with stabilizers pre-installed and are on a translucent polycarbonate plate that matches, once again, the plate used on the keyboard itself as we shall see. Skyloong also includes a handy two-in-one metal wire keycap puller and switch remover tool.


But wait, there is more in the form of two separate sets of replacement keycaps! One consists of three orange keycaps which are more likely to be used on the keyboard if you go with the split space bar module. The other, larger zip-lock bag contains the rest of the keycaps from a keycap set that was used on the keyboard itself. This is Skyloong and Epomaker deciding you already paid for a keycap set to be used on the keyboard that won't use all of them and deciding to give you the rest anyway in case you decide to use them elsewhere. It's a move that I was quite pleasantly surprised by and some of these will be also handy as we shall see. Rounding off this impressive unboxing experience is a look at the provided keyboard cable that ultimately terminates in USB Type-C on one end and Type-A on the other—via an adapter, but otherwise it's another Type-C port here too—but is actually a fancy coiled and split cable while also using red and black patterned paracord to make for one of the best stock cables I have seen on any keyboard to date. The two Type-C plugs are even gold-plated for oxidation resistance!