Review: Dareu EK87 Pro Keyboard

Sep 27, 2025 - ⧖ 2 min
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An overhead view of the Dareu EK87 Pro Keyboard, which has blank keycaps with a horizontal, white to green gradient.

Initial Impressions

The Dareu EK87 looks and feels great so far. It had RGB lighting on by default, but that was easy to disable. I'm currently using it in wired mode, but it does support connecting over wifi and bluetooth. It comes with PBT keycaps, hotswappable switches, and a 4000mAh battery rated for approximately 20 days.

I chose to go with Dareu's "Cloud" linear keyswitches, with .42g operating force. They also offer "Silent Mustard", which are .40g silent linear switches.

The "Cloud" switches are quite satisfying to type on and listen to, but might not be suitable in an open office environment.

Configuration

Using keyd and nix, I remapped a few keys:

{
    ek87 = {
        # Dareu EK87 Pro
        ids = ["260d:0060"];
        settings = {
            main = {
                capslock = "layer(control)";
                leftmeta = "layer(alt)";
                leftalt = "layer(meta)";
                leftcontrol = "capslock";
                rightcontrol = "hangeul";
            };
        };
    };
}

which results in:

# /etc/keyd/ek87.conf

[ids]
260d:0060

[main]
capslock=layer(control)
leftalt=layer(meta)
leftcontrol=capslock
leftmeta=layer(alt)
rightcontrol=hangeul

Info

Purchased on 2025-09-23, from Dareu (다얼유)'s Naver store, for ₩39,200 KRW ($27.81 USD), in a mint-green colorway. It came with Dareu's linear, .42g "Cloud" keyswitches.

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