Cerakey opens pre-orders for Zen75 low-profile ceramic keyboard

Cerakey has pushed the Zen75 back into pre-order, giving the low-profile board another turn in the spotlight for a corner of the keyboard hobby that obsesses over feel, sound, and materials as much as layout. The 75 percent board comes in matte black or glossy white, and the ceramic keycaps make it look less like a standard enthusiast slab and more like a finished object with its own personality. At $129 during the summer pre-sale, down from a regular price of $159, Cerakey is pitching the Zen75 as an easier way into a very particular kind of premium build.

Cerakey says the summer pre-sale runs from June 15 to July 15, with shipping promised within three months after the sale ends and orders sent out in sequence. The company also lists a 1-year limited warranty. That package matters because the Zen75 is not just a case with unusual caps on top. Cerakey pairs the board with a gasket mount, multi-layer foams made up of IXPE, Poron, and EBDM, plus a PVC sound-damping film, all of it aimed at shaping a softer, more deliberate sound profile than the barebones low-profile boards that often trade on thinness alone.

The switch choice stays in the same lane. Cerakey says the Zen75 uses Kailh Firefly POM low-profile linear switches in 40gf and 50gf versions, with 50gf on the spacebar and 40gf on the rest of the keys. It is also QMK and VIA compatible, hot-swappable, tri-mode capable, and aimed at both Mac and Windows users, which keeps it inside the familiar enthusiast checklist even as the material story sets it apart.

That material story is the real hook. Cerakey calls the Zen75 the first low-profile keyboard with ceramic keycaps, and it is clearly trying to turn ceramic from novelty into a core design language. The company is already selling a Peak60 HE full ceramic magnetic switch keyboard on its site, and the Zen75 is its second keyboard product after the ceramic keycap project that launched the brand’s hardware push in 2022. Cerakey says that original campaign became Kickstarter’s most-funded keycap project ever, while Kickstarter’s project page shows 3,266 backers pledging HK$4,404,954 between May 10 and June 9, 2022. Cerakey’s company story later summarizes the same effort as $917,715 from 5,320 backers.

The Zen75 itself also came through Kickstarter, where 1,166 backers pledged HK$1,078,688. Kickstarter says most orders had been shipped as of January 22, 2026. That leaves Cerakey with a clear lane: it is not simply selling a slimmer board, it is trying to prove that a low-profile keyboard can still feel like an object worth collecting.