Editing WASD Keyboards

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| location_city    = Milpitas
| location_country = California, USA
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'''WASD Keyboards''' is an online vendor of mechanical keyboards and accessories of its own brand.
It was founded in 2011 to cater for the enthusiast and gaming markets.
It is based in Milpitas in ''Silicon Valley'', California, USA.

==Product line==
WASD Keyboards' flagship product is a full-size mechanical keyboard, a variant of [[Costar]]'s reference design with [[Cherry MX]] switches. It is available in many options and switch variations.
As of February 2018, they are available in full-size, [[tenkeyless]], and [[60%25|60% compact]] sizes, each in both ANSI and ISO layouts.

The company is mostly known for its ''Custom Keyboard Designer'' with which a customer can design its own layout and colour scheme for a keyboard or keycap set.
Most products are bought from [[Costar]] in Taiwan but WASD Keyboards [[Keycap_printing#UV_printing|UV prints]] keycaps in its own factory on order.

Beside full keyboards, WASD Keyboards also sells Cherry MX-compatible keycaps, keyboard parts and accessories. Keyboards have Costar [[Stabiliser|stabilisers]].

===Keycaps===
There are many options for legends. Keycaps can be blank or have UV printed legends. Legends can be in a MS Windows standard font or be completely custom.

The keycaps are of [[Keycap construction#ABS|ABS plastic]] and has the larger standard [[Keycap profile#Contoured|contoured profile]] for Cherry MX, compatible in layout, size and profile with [[Filco Majestouch|Filco]], [[Das Keyboard|Das]] and others. Keyboards and keycap sets have ''Windows keys'' and a centered-stem [[caps lock]].
Big-ass [[Enter key|enter keys]] (for Steelseries,...) and 1.5 wide control and Alt keys (for iOne XArmor, ''winkeyless'' Cherry keyboards,...) are not available.
The company has a [http://www.wasdkeyboards.com/keycap-compatibility|Keyboard compatibility chart] to help buyers.

Some doubleshot ABS or PBT keycaps are available as options, which cannot be printed.

Before WASD Keyboards started offering UV-printed legends, they offered keycaps with custom [[Laser etching|laser-etched]] and/or [[Laser engraving|laser-engraved]] legends.

==Notes==
The company was nominated in the ''Best keyboard company or brand'' category in the ''2011 Deskthority Awards''.

The company has taken its name from [[WASD]] gaming keys.

==External links==
* [http://www.wasdkeyboards.com WASD Keyboard's web site]
* [http://geekhack.org/forumdisplay.php?83-WASD-Keyboards Vendor forum on Geekhack]

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