Womier Low Profile Keycaps - Shine Through Keycaps 60 65 75 100 Percent, Keyboard Key caps PBT Full Size for Cherry Gateron MX Switches Mechanical Keyboard, Grey/White

The media could not be loaded. Do you have a low-profile Keychron K5 Max? Are you also frustrated Keychron never stocks the low-profile, shine-through keycaps for a keyboard with RGB back lighting, or just wanna customize? Have I got (almost) good news for you.I picked up the Gray set of these Womier caps simply wanting to have my backlit keyboard be back lit!The good:1. The small, *single post* key caps fit nicely.2. The key feel is very good and sound is similar.3. These are north lit caps and the K5 is a north lit keyboard, so the shine through works very well! See photos.4. They really give a full set of key caps, including options for the size and colors of different auxiliary keys, like different size and color return keys. Very nice.Some draw backs. These are not the fault of Womier, the Keychron caps are just different:1. The wider caps are the right size, but any secondary posts are slightly too long. They work but make an unsatisfying click when you type on them as a result. This might be fixable by very carefully cutting down the secondary posts a little, but I didn't try.2. The spacebar has a similar issue and does not sit or tap evenly as a result.3. Minor: These caps run parallel to the board surface. The stock ones run in a stair step pattern and as a result these are slightly thicker at the north side of each cap than stock. See side photo where the white keys are these and the orange and gray are stock keychron.That said, I just swapped most of them to enjoy the back lighting as I like to dim the lights at night. For now I left all the top row keys which had special secondary symbols, and I left most of the large caps stock (as shown) so they actuate smoothly.The result is satisfying enough! Again, they feel great and the shine through is quite good. Will see if the bigger caps being not totally level motivates me to try trimming the Womier stems a bit.Overall I feel Womier is redeeming my keyboard with this one.

Note about the photos: The keyboard looks darker when the LEDs are on, due to my camera's HDR. That photo is useful for showing how bright and uniform the LED shine, not the keyboard itself, which looks like how it looks in the photo of the LEDs off.For starters, I bought this to use with my Lofree Flow keyboard. As opposed to most low profile mechanical keyboards with a standard, non-ortholinear layout, the Lofree Flow uses Kailh low profile v2 switches. The product page doesn't explicitely mention the Kailh switches, but with the v2 switches having a + shaped stem, I figured they should work. For the most part, they do. They do have slightly longer stems, and add about 2 mm to the keyboard, which is significant for a keyboard designed to be thin. For the Lofree flow, it's an 11 % increase. Not great, but with it just being the stems, theoretically you could sand down the stems and regain that thinner profile.The keycaps don't change the sound profile of the keyboard in any significant way, which is great. The keyboard sounded great, and these keycaps don't ruin it. Maybe they sound a tad louder, but that's about it.That is with the exception of the space bar, which has some interference, causing a much louder, worse sound. I think it's a problem with the stabilizers, though none of the other stabilizers have this issue. You can remedy this by easing the space bar back a bit, or you could just continue to use your old space bar. The shape is a bit different, but not by much. Really, it's just a bit shorter. The white keycaps matches the white Lofree switches very well, and in my opinion, they keyboard still looks good with the black Lofree space bar, if you have that.I'm also not a huge fan of the grey keycaps. They're a warmer grey, which looks almost tan compared to the neutral grey of the aluminum case. Not a huge deal, but it's worth noting. The legends are also colored by the tone of the grey, making the white LEDs almost yellow. Whether you like this or not is a matter of taste, I kind of like it. It makes the LEDs more interesting, but it will likely cause issues with colored LEDs.The shape of the keycaps are different from the Lofree keycaps in subtle ways. They're angled more towards the top and are more concave. In my opinion, this makes the keys feel more distinct. The keycaps are also more textured than the Lofree keycaps, which is a matter of taste.I'm not a huge fan of the aesthetics. In my opinion, it's not just plain, but kind of generic. I bought to use it with my Lofree Flow, to give it led legends, for use in the dark, but it inadvertently makes the Lofree Flow look like a much cheaper keyboard, which is a shame. Still, the legends are big and readable, even with the backlight off, and they let a lot of light through.That is, with the exception of the backspace key, which the lighting of is a major disappointment. The LED doesn't spread out enough to cover all of "BACKSPACE", with it dimming at the A and E, and the B almost completely dark. Most shine through keycaps use an arrow to denote backspace, for this reason.In my opinion, these keycaps are decent, with some issues. For the price, I recommend them, but I'll also keep an eye out for better low profile keycaps to replace them with.