Root is a keycap set for the kind of desk where the monitor is mostly black with green or white text on it. It takes its look from programmer workstations and industrial terminals: restrained colours, a dot-matrix pattern on the accent keys like the pixels of an old display, and spare, minimalist legends that look typeset rather than branded. Nothing on it shouts. It is the keycap equivalent of a good monospace font.
That restraint is what makes it work on so many boards. On a black or grey aluminium case it disappears into the hardware; on a white or e-coated case the dot-matrix keys become the one graphic element on the desk.











