keycaps

I know that keyboard configurations can be changed with relative ease, but the physical keyboards cannot be: for most folks, the folks who don’t know DVORAK from Adam and aren’t going to learn a new layout recreationally, the keycaps are the layout.

QWERTY vs. Dvorak - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007

The neck consists of 144 'keycaps' spread across six rows and along 24 'frets', each one represents a note (just like on a traditional guitar) which can be tuned to just about any pitch and tone desired in Misa's control program.

Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine 2010

The instrument, called Misa, is really a guitar-shaped computer, a midi controller whose "frets" are in fact 144 keycaps.

Original Signal - Transmitting Gadgets 2010

The manual Smith-Corona typewriter I used in college had two keys where you could switch keycaps and the strikers, and I had an interrobang on one of them.

Friday BSNYC Pleasure Examination! BikeSnobNYC 2009

By contrast, the Asus U2E keyboard, while nothing to write home about, is more conventional and more usable, with traditional tapered keycaps that provide better key separation.

Two Laptops Travel 2008

These are basically the button array and a reinforced silicon interface doubling as keycaps made into one composite package.

Why did it take them so long to figure THIS out Miss Snark 2006

Next layer up is the silicon interface which links the keycaps to the button array.

Why did it take them so long to figure THIS out Miss Snark 2006

It's just ugly; the keycaps no longer match the letters that appear on-screen.

Ars Technica Peter Bright 2011

They can have lights, simple electronics, multiple types of switches, in-molded keycaps, a dozen paint colors with masked-off areas for backlighting;

Boing Boing Rob Beschizza 2011

Full-size keycaps are comfortable and convenient for data input.

Yugster.com 2010