The backlighting on these keyboards is quite bright, and the translucent bottom case design lets out a substantial amount of light. That said, the clarity is poor as the stock keycaps are opaque and lack shine-through legends. Be aware that the LEDs are also south-facing, which limits the amount of light that will travel through most shine-through keycap sets, which tend to have north-facing legends. For reference, we’ve taken a photo with the W, A, S, and D keys replaced with standard shine-through keycaps taken from another keyboard. NuPhy does sell a set of keycaps with shine-through legends designed for south-facing LEDs. See the Hardware Customizability section above for more details.

We purchased the NuPhy Halo96 V2 with NuPhy Mint switches, which matched with the Mojito colorway and lent a noticeably green hue to the lighting as seen in the above photos which are set to white-only lighting.

There were extra sample switches included (1x each of NuPhy Rasbperry, NuPhy Lemon, and NuPhy Mint) in the box, and we took photos with these switches installed so you can compare the effect on lighting with each: LEDs only, sample switches, and sample switches with keycaps.

NuPhy also included several transparent Mojito Crystal keycaps in our box, which may have been a pre-order bonus but are typically available as a separate purchase. For reference, you can see an image with these Mojito Crystal keycaps at maximum brightness setting here and minimum brightness here.