Gallery · OhType · 2025

GMK CYL Abstract

At a glance

The idea What would happen if you stripped things down to their most basic forms, but still told a story?

numbered sets, release 005 at The Key Machine, now sold out: 250
caps in the set, in GMK's Cylindrical profile: 191
colours in the palette, on a warm cream base, in doubleshot ABS with UV-printed legends: 12

Designer · Sold out

An exploration of abstraction through minimalistic geometric shapes, combined with a contemporary mix of colors for a fun, playful palette.

Client: OhType
Role: Designer
Year: 2025
Made by: GMK
Units sold: 250 sets
Status: Sold out

Origins

I've always been fascinated by the way we attach meaning to shapes, colors, and patterns - sometimes without even realizing it. Abstract started as a fun experiment to explore - what would happen if you stripped things down to their most basic forms, but still told a story? What if your keyboard wasn't just functional, but also a little mysterious?

The Abstract logo, its letters built from geometric shapes in green, orange, purple, navy, pink and blue, on a pale peach pattern of tone-on-tone shapes

The full Abstract pattern: a dense grid of circles, triangles, arches, crosses and half-moons in the set's accent colours

Shapes and symbols

This set is anchored by a collection of shapes and symbols - some familiar, some less so - brought together with a playfully, colorful palette that leans more toward curiosity than seriousness. If you're looking closely, you might spot a few patterns, or subliminal messages and meaning hiding in plain sight. (Or you might just see a bunch of pretty shapes and weird sub-legends, and that's cool too.)

Logo explorations

Shapes, palette and sub-legends

RAL 060 90 10

#FFE5CC

Base Keycap Color

#000000

Legends

Pantone 7726 C

#0B7A4F

Shapes & Sub-legends

Pantone 173 C

#D94B25

Shapes & Sub-legends

Pantone 1375 C

#FFA015

Shapes & Sub-legends

RAL 300 40 25

#635A87

Shapes & Sub-legends

RAL 270 30 25

#24466C

Shapes & Sub-legends

Pantone 3302 C

#164E4B

Shapes & Sub-legends

R02

#E42C38

Shapes & Sub-legends

Pantone 169 C

#F3A79A

Shapes & Sub-legends

RAL 350 70 15

#B597A2

Shapes & Sub-legends

Pantone 7689 C

#3484A7

Shapes & Sub-legends

Colour exploration

A wide colour exploration: rows of Pantone and RAL swatches in creams, greens, oranges, purples, navies, teals, pinks, mauves and blues, tested beside sample keycap legends, with the final palette listed along the bottom

Kitting

Everything comes in a single All-in-One kit: 191 caps in GMK's Cylindrical profile, doubleshot ABS with UV-printed legends, made as a numbered edition of 250.

A render of the full kit laid out on travertine: rows of cream caps with colourful geometric sub-legends and shape novelties

Box art

Box dieline

The Abstract box dieline on peach: a tone-on-tone pattern lid with the small logo, side panels with the Key Machine, GMK and UNIQEY marks, and the full colour pattern on the base beside the GMK CYL Abstract title

The Abstract box standing on a concrete plinth in front of a fluted grey wall, a cream keyboard behind it — Box renders

Looking down on the corner of a concrete plinth: the keyboard and the box's side panel, printed with a line about abstraction

Top-down view of the open box art and the keyboard side by side on grey concrete

Renders

I wanted Abstract to feel light and fun - the kind of set that invites double-takes, sparks questions, and maybe even starts conversations. It's not THAT deep, but it is layered. There are little stories scattered throughout. You just have to look for them.

Renders • @oh.type

A warm dining room: a cream keyboard on a round table beside a yellow chair, with the Abstract pattern framed on the wall above

The keyboard on a pale table against a deep red wall, the colourful Abstract pattern framed above it

Looking down on the keyboard on a round table with a green chair, small vases and a soft rug

The keyboard on a table under a brass pendant light, with green and pink vases in the foreground

A green keyboard on a peach tabletop, seen from above at an angle, its shape novelties lit by soft diagonal shadows beside an orange sphere

A sunlit white arch with the keyboard standing upright on a stone plinth

Close-up of the keyboard standing upright on a stone plinth inside a shadowed arch

A small keyboard on a white cube in a soft pastel set of arches and blocks

The keyboard tilted on the edge of a white cube, its colourful shape novelties catching the light

A cream keyboard on a teal shelf, cut by a bold diagonal band of light across a patterned wall

Close-up across the keys at an angle, showing the shape novelties and the small sub-legends

A tighter close-up of the novelty caps with their geometric shapes and the word sub-legends

Photography

Always Bring Some Twist, Randomness, Art, Color & Thrills. Now read that again, but only the first letters of each word.

Personal Shots • @oh.type

A pink split keyboard fitted with Abstract, its two halves joined and floating among peach geometric shapes: arches, cylinders, triangles, a cube and spheres

Close-up of the full board, its cream keys covered in colourful shape novelties, between two brass knobs

The right half of the board floating over a peach sphere, the left half drifting out of frame above it

The two halves of the split keyboard floating apart, one above the other, among the peach shapes

The right half up close above a peach sphere, with tall peach blocks at the edges of the frame

The right half hovering over a peach sphere and an arch, with a brass knob beside the arrow keys

In the wild

Alexotos • @alexotos