If you’ve been around my page for a while, you already know I spend way too much time behind a camera and a keyboard. I’m Captain Sterling, a keyboard enthusiast and content creator who’s photographed and reviewed more keycap sets this year than I can count. After months of builds, swaps, sound tests, and way too many desk reconfigurations, I’ve narrowed it down to my top five custom mechanical keyboard keycap sets of 2025.

Some of my favorite keyboards you can get right now(ish.) in March 2025!

It all begins with an idea. Each of these designers spent hundreds of hours crafting these ideas. Here are my Top 5 Keycap Designs of 2024.