October 01, 2019Color Matching

GMK Dracula

GROUPBUY

+ October 2019

SHIPPING

+ Estimated to ship Q2 2020 [pending color matching] (as of 10.4.2019)

+ Estimated to ship Feb 2021 [pending color matching] (as of 9.9.2020)

+ Estimated to ship Feb 2021 [pending color matching] (as of 10.1.2020)

+ Estimated to ship March/April 2021 [pending color matching] (as of 11.5.2020)

+ Estimated to ship June 2021 [pending color matching] (as of 2.4.2021)

KEYCAPS

COLOR SAMPLES

+ Oct 2019 - Colors submitted to manufacturer

CUSTOM COLORS:
✅ Alphas
👁 Modifiers
✅ Pink
✅ Purple
✅ Green
✅ Red
✅ Blue
✅ Yellow

ROUND 1:
+ Early Feb 2020 - Received the first round of samples. 4-month wait.
+ Early Feb 2020 - Sent samples to designer.
+ Late Feb 2020 - Approved red and blue. Submitted adjustments for a second round of alphas, mods, pink, green, purple, and yellow. Right after the pandemic really started to shut down everything.

ROUND 2:
+ Late July 2020 - Received the second round of samples. 5 month wait.
+ Early August 2020 - Sent samples to color specialist to measure and to designer.
+ First Week of Sept 2020 - No approvals. Submitted adjustments for a third round.

ROUND 3:
+ Mid Oct 2020- We received alpha, modifier, and yellow samples. Within 5 weeks of submitting them, which seems to be back to the original timeline of samples from 2019.
+ Mid Oct 2020 - Sent samples to designer and color specialist.
+ Early Nov 2020 - Approved alphas and yellow(tentatively). Submitted adjustments for a fourth round of the modifiers.
+ Late Dec 2020 - Green and Purple samples arrived.
+ Late Dec 2020 - Samples were mailed to designer and color specialist.
+ Early Jan 2021 - Received color data.
+ Early Jan 2021 - Green and Purple are confirmed. Yellow is officially confirmed.

ROUND 4:
+ Late Dec 2020 - R4 Modifier and Pink samples arrived.
+ Late Dec 2020 - Samples were mailed to designer and color specialist.
+ Early Jan 2021 - Received color data.
+ Early Jan 2021 - Pink confirmed. Mod color was no where close to what we wanted. the 4th sample for the modifier was basically worthless, giving us no other choice but to get a 5th round.
+ Early Jan 2021 - Submitted adjustments to the manufacturer for the modifiers.

ROUND 5:
+ Late Jan 2021 - R5 Modifier sample arrived.
+ Late Jan 2021 - R5 Modifier sample sent to designer and color specialist.
+ Early Feb 2021 - Received color data from color specialist
+ Mid Feb 2021 - Submitted changes to manufacturer for a round 6 modifier sample.