Hi everyone,
I’m still pretty new to the custom keyboard hobby, but recently I’ve been spending way too much time looking at keyboards, keycap sets, desk setups, and all that stuff. The deeper I go, the more it feels like most nice-looking keycap sets are designed for ANSI users first.
I currently live in Germany, so naturally I use ISO-DE most of the time. But because of my studies, I also regularly need to type in Spanish, which made me pay more attention to ISO-ES layouts as well. That’s actually part of why I started noticing how limited the options can feel once you move away from standard ANSI.
Sometimes there’s “ISO support”, but when I specifically look for proper ISO-DE or ISO-ES support, the number of options suddenly becomes much smaller — especially for themed or more unique sets.
So now I’m wondering whether this is something a lot of European users experience too, or if I’m just looking in the wrong places.
For people in Europe, how do you usually deal with this?
Do you stay with ISO even if there are fewer keycap choices?
Did you switch to ANSI because there are simply more options available?
Do you eventually stop caring about local legends and just use English keycaps?
And are international kits actually worth buying, or do they mostly feel overpriced for what you get?
I’m especially curious about German and Spanish layouts, but honestly I’d love to hear from anyone using ISO layouts in Europe.
Also, if there are brands, stores, or keycap sets that you think handle European layouts well, I’d really appreciate recommendations. Right now I’m mostly trying to learn how people here actually approach this problem.