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Cherry Profile keycaps

Cherry profile keycap sets — short sculpted Cherry shape from GMK, PBTfans, ePBT, KBDfans. Low-profile typing feel, the de facto enthusiast standard.

17 keycaps · $22–$50

Cherry is the short sculpted profile that became the enthusiast default in the 2010s. Each row carries a different curvature (R1–R4) so your fingertips drop into a slight scoop, and the whole set sits around 9.4 mm tall — roughly 25% lower than OEM, the profile most pre-built boards ship with.

Seventeen sets here, and the shape of that shelf is worth knowing before you scroll: eleven are Epomaker's in-house sets, four are Wooting's first-party caps, and there is one GMK Olivia and one Glorious. If you arrived expecting the group-buy market — PBTfans, ePBT, KBDfans — that is a different supply chain, and it is not what this page lists.

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What is actually on this shelf

Thirteen of the seventeen sets are PBT, one is ABS, and three are polycarbonate. That last group is not a rounding error — it is a genuinely different product. Epomaker Frost Jelly, SmokFiber and Glorious Polychroma V2 are translucent caps built to diffuse RGB through the whole keycap rather than through a legend window. They wear and sound nothing like PBT; buy them for the light, not for the feel.

Nine sets carry dye-sublimated legends and three are doubleshot. That split matters more than the material does if you use backlighting: only five of the seventeen Cherry sets we track are shine-through, against eight of nine on the OEM page. Cherry, as stocked, is a profile for people who do not need to read their legends in the dark.

Compatibility, in the two ways it bites

Cherry-profile sets are cut for MX-style stems, so they fit any board with Cherry-compatible switches — which is nearly every board with a hot-swap socket. The two things that actually go wrong are bottom-row width and kit coverage.

Set sizes here run from 61 to 165 keys, median 134. A 134-key set is generous: it covers a full-size board plus alternate modifiers. The 61-key Wooting Magnetic Wave set is a 60% kit and will leave a TKL board with bare modifiers. Before buying, count the keys your layout needs, not the keys in the box — a "165-key" set is not 165 keys you will use.

The second trap is the bottom row. Cherry sets assume the classic 6.25u spacebar with 1.25u modifiers. Boards with a 7u spacebar, split spacebars, or Alice-style layouts need the specific kit, and most of these sets do not include it.

Our keycap profile comparison walks the shapes side by side if you are choosing between them.

Frequently asked

Is Cherry profile good for typing?
For most people, yes. The low height and per-row sculpt mean less finger travel than OEM, and the transition takes a few days at most. If you type on a laptop as well as a desktop board, low profiles like Cherry make the switch between the two less jarring.
Cherry profile or OEM?
OEM is about 2 mm taller with a steeper front row. That extra height is not worse — a lot of people find it more secure under the fingertip — but it is more travel. The practical difference on this site is smaller than the theory: pick by what you need from the legends and the backlight, since our [OEM shelf](/keycaps/oem) is almost entirely shine-through doubleshot and this one is mostly opaque dye-sub.
Why is there only one GMK set?
GMK is the original Cherry-profile producer and sells through months-long group buys in small runs, which is a poor fit for an aggregator tracking live retail stock. [GMK Olivia](/keycaps/gmk-olivia) is here because it has a standing retail presence; most GMK colourways do not.

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