{"title":"DSS Keycap Sets","description":"\u003cp class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eExperience a blast from the past with our selection of classic DSS keycaps. This keycap profile was designed by Signature Plastics in the 1980s as a sculpted version of the popular DSA shape. DSS keycaps stand apart with their medium height and spherical, textured top surface. The profile is slightly shorter than SA keycaps, providing a lower and more minimalist look. \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eUnlike the more common cylindrical DCS keycaps, DSS offers a touch of retro sculpting. This unique profile was short-lived in its heyday. Vintage keyboards sporting original DSS keycaps are rare collector's items today.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"dss-tecla","title":"DSS Tecla - Price Reduced!","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e75% off remaining inventory.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat's more exciting than customizing your keyboard to perfectly match your unique style? Tecla offers the perfect blend of accessibility for everyone. From newbies to keyboard hobbyists and gaming enthusiasts, the idea is to empower the keycap buyer to mix and match different aspects of the set as much as possible!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDesigner: Cassidy Williams (Previously designed XDA Scrabble and DSA Astrolokeys)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCassidy is a software engineer who loves building keyboards! Inspired by the keyboard work coming from Spanish designers, Tecla, which means \"key\" in Spanish, is a subtle ode to Cassidy's home away from home.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo get to know your designer a little bit more, check out her website: https:\/\/cassidoo.co\/\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis DSS Sculptured set has 3 colors, WA for white, RA for Red and BFP for Blue.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIndividual keys can be purchased if they are already part of a set pictured above. You can purchase individual keys by selecting the individual key option from the dropdown menu and the putting the description of the key you want to purchase in the order comments section at checkout (this is a box below the shipping address form).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat is the DSS Profile? DSS offers the textured, spherical touch surface of DSA in a medium-height profile that's shorter than tall SA keycaps. A classic style from the early 80s, DSS keycaps had a relatively short life as they lost commercial appeal to the DCS family. We've re-re-commissioned are DSS tooling to bring them back!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Signature Plastics","offers":[{"title":"Alphas","offer_id":49406046011670,"sku":"","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"80% Modifiers Blue","offer_id":49406045847830,"sku":"","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"80% Modifiers Red","offer_id":49406045978902,"sku":"","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Numpad","offer_id":49406046044438,"sku":"","price":2.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Gaming\/Coding Blue","offer_id":49406045880598,"sku":"","price":2.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Gaming\/Coding Red","offer_id":49406046077206,"sku":"","price":3.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Ortho Blue","offer_id":49406045913366,"sku":"","price":6.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Ortho Red","offer_id":49406046109974,"sku":"","price":6.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Homing","offer_id":49406045946134,"sku":"","price":3.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"UK","offer_id":49406046142742,"sku":"","price":3.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0793\/6996\/1750\/files\/TeclaTKLMechanicalKeyboard.png?v=1694474068"},{"product_id":"dss-dolch","title":"DSS Dolch - Price Reduced on Remaining Stock!","description":"\u003cp\u003eDolch is the first custom set to be produced on the recently re-commissioned DSS tooling. This tooling was built in the early 80's to offer a sculptured look to the popular DSA profile. It is a medium height profile, shorter than SA, with a textured spherical touch surface and smooth sided like DSA. The DSS family had a relatively short life as it lost its commercial appeal to the DCS family which had a more popular cylindrical touch surface. Old keyboards populated with the DSS family would be a rare and valuable find today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eColors are the same as DSA Dolch and are ABS: GE (light gray); GX (dark gray); RA (red).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFuture DSS sets will only be run in ABS material. PBT blanks or sublimated keys will not be an option for this family.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIndividual Keys - They can only be ordered if they are part of the existing pack. Orders will be refunded for keys purchased that are not already included as part of a pack. You can purchase individual keys by selecting the individual key option from the dropdown menu and the putting the description of the key you want to purchase in the order comments section at checkout (this is a box below the shipping address form).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlternate Keys - Identify the key size, the row, and the description of the key you would like to purchase. Only keys included in this image can be ordered as Alternate Keys.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat is the DSS Profile? DSS offers the textured, spherical touch surface of DSA in a medium-height profile that's shorter than tall SA keycaps. A classic style from the early 80s, DSS keycaps had a relatively short life as they lost commercial appeal to the DCS family. We've re-re-commissioned are DSS tooling to bring them back!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Signature Plastics","offers":[{"title":"Alphas","offer_id":49406092017942,"sku":"","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"80% TKL Modifiers","offer_id":49406091952406,"sku":"","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Pro Modifiers","offer_id":49406092181782,"sku":"","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Extreme Modifiers","offer_id":49406092083478,"sku":"","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Red Accents","offer_id":49406092214550,"sku":"","price":2.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Alternate F-row","offer_id":49406092050710,"sku":"","price":4.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Numpad","offer_id":49406092149014,"sku":"","price":9.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"International","offer_id":49406092116246,"sku":"","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"UK ISO","offer_id":49406092247318,"sku":"","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"7u Spacebar","offer_id":49406091985174,"sku":"","price":3.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0793\/6996\/1750\/files\/DSS_Dolch_Keyboard.png?v=1695242475"},{"product_id":"dss-microcomputer-presale","title":"DSS Microcomputer","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDSS Microcomputer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eA Digital Archaeology Tale from the Custer Vaults\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003ePicture this: somewhere in a cluttered bedroom circa 1987, between viewings of The Princess Bride and debates about Sylvester McCoy's mysterious Seventh Doctor, a young programmer encounters the commanding presence of a BBC Microcomputer Model B. Its distinctive dark brown keyboard, crowned with that iconic row of red function keys, sits humming quietly—a gateway to digital worlds more compelling than any Choose Your Own Adventure book. Fast forward forty years, and here I am in our Custer workshop, holding the original brass legend inserts that once breathed life into those very keys.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eWhile we never housed the actual machines, fate delivered us something more precious from our archives—the brass DNA of computing history itself. These aren't the exact same caps that launched a thousand careers (though here's a manufacturing secret: the sprue marks are in precisely the same locations, because good engineering is eternal). But here's where the tale takes a delightful turn: these colors aren't exactly the same as forty years ago, so we enlisted the help of\u003cb\u003e superhands\u003c\/b\u003e from our SP Discord (thanks again!), who graciously provided an original set for our color-matching séance. Each doubleshot legend emerges in carefully matched WFK White, VEA Olive, OB Red, and TAA Brown—colors our artisans obsessed over through seventeen iterations until we captured not just the hues, but the very soul of 1980s British computing optimism. There's something beautifully circular about recreating these legends in an era when ARM processors—those same chips that first hummed to life in the BBC's later models—now power the MacBooks we use to design keycap sets. Of course, we've included UKISO in the base set (because what kind of BBC tribute would skip the proper British layout?), plus a treasure trove of keys for all those wonderfully weird layouts that make our global keyboard community so delightfully diverse. Every key is hand-inspected by craftspeople who remember when computing meant something magical, delivering that perfect DSS profile balance between SA's towering presence and DSA's minimalist approach.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Signature Plastics","offers":[{"title":"Base\/Full Set","offer_id":50350814396694,"sku":null,"price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Extensions","offer_id":50350814429462,"sku":null,"price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"40s and Ortho","offer_id":50350814462230,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Numpad","offer_id":50350814494998,"sku":null,"price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0793\/6996\/1750\/files\/DSS_Microcomputer_Board_001.jpg?v=1759260165"}],"url":"https:\/\/spkeyboards.mom\/collections\/dss-keycaps.oembed","provider":"Signature Plastics","version":"1.0","type":"link"}