Four plates. One impression.
A mechanical keyboard built like a printed page. Four translucent plates, stacked until they register into one form.
The idea
We took the volume
apart.
Every keyboard hides its construction inside one opaque shell. We cut that volume into horizontal layers and made each layer a colour you can see through. Scroll, and the block comes apart.
The pattern on top isn't printed on. It's the sum of what's underneath.
Screens add light to make colour. Paper takes it away. FOURPLATE is built on the second rule: each plate filters the light passing through the ones above it.
- PlatesFour, translucent cast, one per colour
- MountFull-stack gasket
- RegistrationAligned to a single optical axis
Construction
Four layers.
One of them you touch.
Three plates carry the structure, the cavity and the electronics. The top is drilled for your switches and keycaps. The whole stack is the gasket, so the board gives as you type and sounds like the layers it's built from.
The technical sheet.
Provisional. Final numbers confirmed at launch.
Layout
- Form
- 65%, 68 keys
- Typing angle
- 6 degrees
- Input
- Rotary encoder, push
Build
- Enclosure
- Four translucent CMYK plates
- Mount
- Full-stack gasket
- Weight
- To confirm
Switches and caps
- Sockets
- Hot-swap, 3 and 5 pin
- Stabilisers
- Screw-in, tuned
- Keycaps
- PBT, dye-sublimated
Electronics
- Connection
- USB-C, wired
- Firmware
- QMK and VIA
- Polling
- 1000 Hz
Pick a switch.
Hear the board.
Every plate has a voice. Choose a switch, then type on your keyboard or tap the keys below. Sound on.
Type a sentence. Space and enter sit deeper, like stabilised keys.
Transparency isn't a finish we applied at the end. It's the whole object. Most hardware spends its life hiding how it was made. This one colour-codes it, and asks you to look right through.
Be on the plate
when it prints.
We open backing to the Registry before anyone else. One email when the press runs. Nothing else.