OEM Profile keycaps
OEM profile keycaps: medium-height (~11.9mm), sculpted, slight cylindrical top. The default profile for most pre-built mechanical keyboards.
9 keycaps · $20–$35
OEM is the profile almost every pre-built keyboard ships with, which makes it the profile most people are replacing rather than the one they are seeking. It is about 2 mm taller than Cherry with a more upright front row, and the sculpt is gentler — rows differ in angle more than in dish depth.
Nine sets here, from Glorious (four), Wooting (three), Royal Kludge and Keychron. Small as that shelf is, it has the clearest identity of any keycap page on the site: eight of the nine are shine-through, and seven of the nine are doubleshot. If your board has RGB and you want to read the legends at night, this page is the answer and the dye-sub page is not.
Glorious
Glorious ABS Doubleshot Keycaps V2
from$24.99
Glorious
Glorious Aura Mechanical Keycaps
from$19.99
Glorious
Glorious GPBT Aura V3 Keycaps
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Glorious
Glorious GPBT Backlit Keycaps
from$34.99
Keychron
Keychron OEM Double-Shot
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Royal Kludge
Royal Kludge x LTC 117-Key PBT Double Shot OEM (Pink)
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Wooting
Wooting Double Shot PBT Backlit Keycap Set
from—Wooting
Wooting Double Shot PBT Backlit Keycap Set (No Split)
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Wooting
Wooting Etched Backlit ABS Keycap Set
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The backlight is the whole point
Doubleshot moulds the legend as a separate piece of plastic rather than printing it on top, so a translucent legend in an opaque cap lets light through a shape that can never wear off. That is why the two properties travel together here: seven doubleshot sets, eight shine-through sets, nine sets total.
Compare the numbers elsewhere. Across the fifty-one dye-sub sets we track, exactly one is shine-through — dye sits in the plastic and blocks light by construction. On the Cherry profile page it is five of seventeen. OEM is where the backlit sets live, and that is a function of what the profile is for: replacing the caps on a gaming board without changing how it feels.
Sizes, and one outlier
Kit sizes run 104 to 219 keys. The 104-key Glorious Aura Mechanical set is a full-size kit with no spares — fine for a 104-key board, tight for anything with a non-standard bottom row. Most of the shelf sits around 123–141 keys, which covers a full-size layout plus alternates.
The outlier is Keychron OEM Double-Shot at 219 keys. That is not a bigger keyboard; it is a multi-layout mega-kit carrying Mac and Windows modifier sets, several bottom rows, and spares. It is also the one set on this page that is neither shine-through nor doubleshot-legended, despite the name — the legends are dye-sublimated.
Material split
Seven of the nine are PBT and two are ABS. PBT resists the greasy shine that develops on ABS over a year or two of use, and sounds slightly deeper. The two ABS sets — Glorious ABS Doubleshot V2 and Wooting Etched Backlit — are both backlit-first designs, where the thinner, more transparent-friendly plastic is doing a job. See the ABS page for what that trade actually costs.
For how OEM sits against SA, DSA, MT3 and the rest, see the keycap profile comparison.
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