I have noticed a new trend of black keyboards about a decade ago. It was weird and I didn't care for it. But now, I am having big troubles finding white keyboards in general. Usually it is less than 10% of the offering in majority of stores.<p>So it makes me wonder, why is this happening? I believe that black keyboards are ergonomically bad from the contrast point of view so I am having hard time accepting this as a reasoning.<p>(and the lack of iso 105 layout keyboards is also an interesting topic for another day)
I think it is because they look old school and filthy. The former is the reason why I buy them, the latter is why I have to wash them more frequently than black keyboards.
That was the old beige computer aesthetic, it went out with the iMac.<p>As long as you can get a white/gray Topre Realforce, it doesn't really matter.