Brightest backlit Keyboard

Btone · 1 Mar 2020 at 10:58

looking a new keyboard for my 80 year old father, as due to a ongoing eye problem he has trouble seeing the keys on the current keyboard, the nature of his eye problem means the brighter the keys are the better

ChrisLX200 · 1 Mar 2020 at 12:57

Logitech G513 is bright - and you can change the colours of each key for best visibility.

Mcnumpty2323 · 1 Mar 2020 at 13:05

Yes rgb is probably a good suggestion
Some people have trouble
Focusing on certain colours
Blue leds for me are hard to focus
So being able to try different colours
For him would be good
I use corsair strafe pretty bright

Dave Burton · 9 Mar 2020 at 12:03

On the back of this, are there any high brightness keyboards with white back-lights, or as close to white as possible? I was going to ask a similar question but didn't want to open a new, almost identical question. thanks.

niko · 10 Mar 2020 at 18:10

ive got a red led corsair k70, its an older model i guess they should still be available. Its stupidly bright even on the lowest light level its to bright for me-on top level i want welding goggles!

Kelt · 10 Mar 2020 at 22:50

Btone said:
looking a new keyboard for my 80 year old father, as due to a ongoing eye problem he has trouble seeing the keys on the current keyboard, the nature of his eye problem means the brighter the keys are the better

I have a Corsair Strafe RGB board, great lighting and a really nice, (IMO) clear, readable font.

EsaT · 11 Mar 2020 at 11:52

Dave Burton said:
On the back of this, are there any high brightness keyboards with white back-lights, or as close to white as possible? I was going to ask a similar question but didn't want to open a new, almost identical question. thanks.

Logitech G710 had pretty bright (thankfully adjustable) white backlight.
If you want back light focused on markings Cherry MX RGBs have heavy light leak with like majority of light leaking out elsewhere than key cap markings.

Dave Burton · 11 Mar 2020 at 13:19

EsaT said:
Logitech G710 had pretty bright (thankfully adjustable) white backlight.
If you want back light focused on markings Cherry MX RGBs have heavy light leak with like majority of light leaking out elsewhere than key cap markings.

Yeah, I just need the lettering on the key-caps to be as bright as possible, I struggle with my eyes seeing the low output of my ageing G11 in the dark, making typing difficult and it's only getting dimmer with age!! I'd looked at the G213 which seems OK, also the Corsair K78 (I think), tho both struggle to give a good "white" output according to the reviews. To be honest I'm not bothered about mechanical switches etc, the backlight is more important

Cheers as always EsaT

DB

Btone · 11 Mar 2020 at 13:56

I ended up with a g513. Found it to be bright and nice to use, we spend a few hours selecting a colour for him, turns out a lime puke green is the easiest for him to see. Still it good that he can see the KB better,

EsaT · 11 Mar 2020 at 13:58

Dave Burton said:
Yeah, I just need the lettering on the key-caps to be as bright as possible, I struggle with my eyes seeing the low output of my ageing G11 in the dark, making typing difficult and it's only getting dimmer with age!! I'd looked at the G213 which seems OK, also the Corsair K78 (I think), tho both struggle to give a good "white" output according to the reviews. To be honest I'm not bothered about mechanical switches etc, the backlight is more important

Extreme "US Christmas lights" like light leak of Cherry MX RGBs certainly wouldn't help by beign distraction from key cap markings.
There's basically more light coming out from between key caps than their markings.
Also not all markings are illuminated equally well.

Logitech's Omron made Romer-G would be superior at focusing light to key cap markings, but brightness just isn't highest.
Though control of light simply smashes others with all markings evenly and equally illuminated:
https://youtu.be/3MJPtoxUx7Y?t=22s
Especially single colour Cherry MX gets atomized and in that G710 lower markings of number keys etc really didn't get illumination at all.
Which made seeing those in dark room harder.