help designing backlighting

[mlapgw]

I need someone(s) with a great eye for design to help me with my next keyboard.

I can choose any color on any key so long as it is white, yellow, orange, red, blue, green, or purple. I can choose for the top of the board to be black or white. The keycaps will be black in either case.

This will be used mostly at home. It is my office so I game there and work. I play all sorts of games. I prefer to use my Nostromo but am forced to use a keyboard at times too.
For work I type some. I am a bad typest, have to look at my fingers. I use autocad and chief architect. Those programs are used with kb/mouse.

For work I sometimes go to tradeshows or little meet ups. I consult Dentist on the layout of their office. Sometimes a little thing like a cool looking keyboard will be just the thing to break the ice and get a conversation going that will allow me to do what I do. Besides a lot of my pediatric dentists do themed offices. They are going to love these keyboards and have to have them. I can't decide if it should be flashy or sophisticated.

Anyway my favorite colors are red and blue. I like purple. I marked the #3 in purple on a design because it is my wife's favorite number and color, I like her so...
I'm not a fan of green.
I usually don't care much for orange but I looked at a backlit keyboard gallery and it looked like orange comes off rather nice. Maybe I have been wrong about orange and judged it too harshly.
I tried my hand at a few. I used a template and paint to come up with these. This is not an area I'm good at. Pick one or redirect me. Thanks!

So remember we are looking for colors of keys AND what color keyboard (black/white)

Here is the template

Option 1

Option 2

Option 3

 

[jime]

All letter keys white, all number keys blue, and all function(including arrow) keys red, F keys yellow, escape key orange.
Otherwise, #2 would be my choice.


JimE.

 

[sharknice]

It would be cool if you could have a blacklight backlight, then you could see how dirty your keyboard is.

 

[mlapgw]

All letter keys white, all number keys blue, and all function(including arrow) keys red, F keys yellow, escape key orange.
Otherwise, #2 would be my choice.


JimE.

like this?

 

[dogbert_2001]

Make it look like teeth.

White on rows Q and Z, black on A, red all around?

Or make it smile by curving it.