If you found this helpful and are planning on purchasing a Drop keycap set, please use my referral link and we’ll both get $10.

I initially built a Drop CTRL keyboard combo with the Halo Clear switches and Astrolokeys Base set for the 15% discount, but after a while I felt myself missing my Cherry MX Silent Black switches and the full keyboard layout of the Vortex Tab 90M.

After transferring the keys, only the right [CTRL] [SHIFT] [ALT] and the [FN] [PN] and [CALC] keys were missing “in theme” keys. After spending a week with the old primary color key caps, I got the “Nonstandard Icon Mods” and the “Ortho Icons” from the Astolokeys page. Ultimately getting those sets plus the base kit instead of the Drop CTRL would have been $150 for the key caps only vs. $250 for the original keyboard base, switches, and base keycap set. But now someone else in the family has a very nice tactile keyboard with the old Tab 90M keycaps until they get their own custom keycaps someday.

Oh, and the Drop CTRL looks pretty cool with the Vortex Tab 90M keycaps, too…