Montage borrows its layout from the editing suite. Professional video editors learn their shortcuts by colour: one shade for cutting, another for trimming, another for playback, blocked across the board so a hand can find the right key without the eye leaving the timeline. Montage takes that colour-coded editing keyboard layout, the one built for DaVinci Resolve, and turns it into a keycap set, so the colours mean something even if you never open an editor.
The name is a nod further back, to the Soviet filmmakers of the 1920s who worked out that two shots cut together make a third meaning neither had alone. The Russian-legend version, Master, carries that history in its characters; the English version, Classic Chrome, keeps the same layout and palette with Latin legends.




