Packaging and Accessories

Packaging for the ZSA Moonlander surprised me because the box for the ErgoDoz EZ was absolutely massive by comparison. This is instead a more compact, rectangular cuboid box, which hints at the increased portability of the Moonlander. It comes bubble wrapped for protection, and the actual box is quite clean with the Moonlander rocket logo on the front. ZSA and Moonlander are also printed on the sides, with two side flaps keeping the contents inside in place during transit. Opening the box, we see an extremely important message I can't urge enough people follow. Head over to this page and go through it—it will cut down the entry barrier and help you make the most of the Moonlander from the get go.


ZSA includes a soft-padded carry case with the Moonlander, which addresses another of my issues with the ErgoDox EZ as it makes the Moonlander more portable and is easier to carry. It comes folded by default, which adds more protection too, but can be unfolded and carried flat in a backpack, too. The case is all black with good quality stitching and a hook-and-loop fastener keeping it closed as needed. Opening it up, we see the two keyboard halves packaged separately in their own compartments, and the accessories are found between them.


Two cables are provided, the first of which is a USB Type-C to Type-C cable in black, along with a Type-C to Type-A adapter for when you do not have an available Type-C port on your PC. The second cable is a 3.5 mm TRRS to 3.5 mm TRRS cable, which is shorter than the first cable but still longer than I'd like. This cable connects the two halves of the keyboard to each other, and the TRRS plug also ensures people don't just plug it into a standard 3.5 mm TRS audio jack for whatever reason. I would have liked Type-C to be used throughout, but the keyboard as a whole at least goes that route now.


This might be easy to miss, but a small pocket in the case holds an L-shaped hex key, which is handy for tightening and loosening the hex screws on the keyboard for ergonomic positioning of the Moonlander.


Inside the product box and underneath the carry case was a plastic bag with a combination metal wire-style keycap puller and switch remover. It is of really good quality, and even the base in the middle has Moonlander etched into a metal badge on either side, which exhibits photochromism with the color changing as you look at it from a different angle.


More plastic to be seen here with each keyboard half also coming inside a plastic wrap. A QC sticker on the back also acts as a tamper-proof seal, and I always appreciate such name references as the one seen here.


The final set of accessories also comes inside a plastic ziplock bag, and we have three replacement keycaps this time—J and F without the typical bumps on them, which helps with touch-typing, and a replacement 1u keycap for the bottom-left key on the Moonlander with a different legend on it. These are doubleshot injected PBT keycaps, and extremely thick at that with an average wall thickness of ~1.5 mm. There is backlighting support, so expect to see more of this on the keyboard itself. ZSA was also kind enough to include a sample set of Kailh Gold clicky switches for a comparison with those on the sample itself.