When it comes to RGB keyboards, few companies do it quite as well as Womier. Known for its bright customizable lighting, the company brings us the G75, a compact, coffee-themed mechanical keyboard with two mounting styles, pre-lubed switches, silicone and foam dampening, and more for $89.99. You’ll need to love either coffee or RGB to make the most of it, but if you appreciate its looks, its quality typing experience is cream on the latte.
Specifications
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- Model: Womier G75
- Total Keys: 82 keys
- Material: PBT Plastic (Keycap)+PC Plastic (Case)
- Keyboard Layout: US ANSI 75% layout
- Mounting Style: Gasket/Top
- Switch: Womier Coffee linear mechanical switch
- Keycap Printing Method: Double shot
- Keycap Profile: ASA profile
- Connection Type: Wired
- Interface: USB Type-C
- Compatible Operating Systems: Windows/macOS
- Hot-Swap: Support
- Weight: 860g (Keyboard)/1250g (Packaged)
It’s been a while since we’ve looked at a Womier keyboard, and with the G75, it’s clear that the company has stepped its game up in a big way. We’ve looked at the K66, the K77, and the K87. Each keyboard looked stunning but virtually required modding for the best typing and gaming experience. The G75 offers quality keys, straight out of the box, and is a major leap forward for the brand.
The G75 is coffee-inspired with a translucent case made of brown acrylic, semi-transparent brown keycaps topped with white doubleshot caps (with brown legends), and playful custom accents on the Enter, Escape, and Spacebar keys. Even its custom “coffee linear” switches follow this theme with brown housings and stems. If you’re not a fan, Womier also includes standard Escape, Enter, and Spacebar keys in the box, leaving you with a uniquely colored but aesthetically pleasing keyboard that leaves its beverage-inspiration covert.
The keyboard utilizes a 75% layout. It features a full function row, arrow keys, and a column of navigation buttons on the right side. There’s an F13/Delete key and most of the missing keys and media controls are tied to secondary commands accessed with the Fn key. It’s very similar to other 75% keyboards in this way, creating a nice middle ground between compactness and functionality, blending work and gaming abilities into one small-footprint design. There’s also a dedicated volume knob made of knurled aluminum. The only omission in the design that would be important for gamers is the lack of Print Screen screenshot functionality, which I sorely miss, though can swapped in with the keyboard’s software.
The lighting is the star of the show but really is the tantalizing treat that gets you in the door. There are bright RGB LEDs underneath each key as well as a whopping forty RGB LEDs around the outer rim that light up the entire case. That brings the total LED count to one-hundred and twenty-two on a compact, smaller-than-TKL keyboard. Both set of LEDs can also be fully customized between 19 preset lighting effects as well as within Womier’s software.
The lighting is really enhanced by the keycaps, and I’ve never seen anything quite like them. They’re pudding keycaps, which means that the sides are translucent (frosted in this case), and light up the full keycap instead of just the legend, amplifying the RGB effect. They’re technically backlit too, but since the RGB LEDs are on the bottom of the keycap, the effect is much less than a traditional backlit keycap.
What’s especially interesting is how they’re made. They’re doubleshot, so the white caps and legends are made of separate pieces of plastic and should never chip or fade. The walls are some of the thickest I’ve encountered on a pudding-style keycaps, which makes typing feel more solid and substantial under the fingers. They’re also made with a spherical ASA profile and are slightly taller and more sculpted than gaming keycaps. They cradle the fingertips a bit more and are very nice to type on.
The switches are also very nice. They’re linear and quite smooth with an actuation force of 40gf, a touch lighter than a Cherry MX Red. The pre-lubing is surprisingly well done for such an affordable keyboard and is consistent across the keyboard with no spring ping to be found. The travel distance is also slightly shorter at 3.8mm versus the 4.0mm standard, indicating that the poles on this switches are a hair longer. This is also something you can hear with their added poppiness when bottomed out.
If you don’t like the switches, you can easily swap them out thanks to the hot-swappable switch sockets. This is virtually a standard feature these days (ironically, outside of mainstream keyboards which still tend to lock you in with soldered switches), but is still a great feature to easily try new switches. It’s also great if you happen to have a switch fail. You can simply pull it out and replace it. Womier sells replacement switches in packs of 35 for $15.99, which is a steal compared to buying a new keyboard.
Beneath those switches, the G75 really demonstrates how far Womier has come in improving the quality of its keyboards. It hasn’t just learned lessons from the custom keyboard community, it even allows you to rebuild the keyboard with a whole second mounting style.
Out of the box, the G75 comes with a gasket mounting style. Rather than screw directly into the case for a “tray mount” like most pre-built keyboards, it uses silicone gaskets on tabs around the plate that set onto the bottom case. These gaskets are then held taut when the top case is screwed in, allowing the plate, PCB, and switches to hover, providing a softer, more flexible typing experience.
If you’d rather have something a little firmer, you can also remove those gaskets and opt for a top-mount configuration. This mounting style screws the plate into the top case with silicone dampeners to isolate your keystrokes. There’s less flexibility but an almost identical sound. You can choose which mounting style works best for you and experiment in a way that’s just not possible with most other keyboards.
Inside the keyboard, we see further examples of Womier investing in its typing experience. Multiple layers of foam dampen keystrokes and tune its sound. There’s a layer of foam between the plate and PCB and another later of thinner foam under the switches to add pop. Below the PCB is a layer of case foam and a large silicone mat to add weight and further dampening. Surprisingly, even with all of this material, there’s noticeable flex when typing using the gasket mounting style.
The stabilizers are also screw-in instead of plate mount, which adds extra stability when typing on its larger keys. This is one area where you may want to do a little modding, however. On my sample, any lube was very light and I’m not sure there was any at all applied to the wire to prevent rattling. It’s a testament to the stabilizers themselves that they’re not very rattly out of the box but with a little dielectric grease added to the wire, they become even better.
Final Thoughts
The Womier G75 came as quite a surprise. Even without the coffee keycaps, it’s a unique looking board — and that’s before you turn on the RGB. The Womier identity is still strong here, but the typing experience is a massive improvement versus the originals. At $89.99 for the pre-built version and $69.99 for the barebones, it’s a good value keyboard for RGB and java lovers.
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