People who have mecha keyboards: what setting do you like the backlights on?

maybe i'm old but RGB gamer stuff has never looked cool to me in the same way underglow on a civic or f-350 doesn't look cool to me, backlight is off on mine and it's got PBT keys anyway so it just lights up the hair and cat fur I haven't cleaned out recently

All keys, lowest brightness. I really don't need them lighting up after I've pressed them or having them fade in and out if I'm searching for a key, I just need to see them a bit better in the evening.

None lighting. Its a keyboard.

Red light at lowest setting is best because it doesn't mess up your night vision. This is why red lights are used for emergency lightning and such, red being the lowest energy color of visible light (long wavelength).

<5% brightness,

I have no LEDs

I keep my at low brightness with a sort of terminal green. I'm not an RGB sort of guy but I do find having a lit keyboard does help with my programming at night. I often forget what key plus SHIFT gives me '&' or '*' and stuff like that.

I leave it on full unicorn vomit all the time because I'm a maniac

One has no backlights. The other I keep on steady, low, purplish.

Heatmap for the standard. It gets more red the faster I type.

However since I use split ergo, when I'm on a layer those are color coded (i.e. numpad lights up, F keys etc).

Rainbow wave its always rainbow wave

I thought I would really like having backlight and paid extra for it. I find I almost never use it. I'd probably be just as happy having a booklight to attach to my keyboard for the offtime I need to see the keys in the total dark.

When I do use it, I use plain white (or the closest approximation) solid on for all keys all the time. No effects no movement.

Why would you want breathing or other animations? Is it an aesthetic thing or is there some utility? I have a low low end kb that defaults to something like this everytime it gets powered off/on and I can only use it in extreme emergencies because it's very annoying to me. But given the popularity there must be some benefit.

Is there anything unique to mkbs with regards to lighting? Can't all kinds of kbs have backlight?

Just solid red at the low settings around evenings. Not a big fan of the crazy settings on peripherals these days.

Mine only lights up the key I just pressed, it fades out medium-slow, and it cycles through the colors.

I just have them as a constant purple. My keyboards wave setting was a bit too fast for me, and I really prefer having the lights on all the time.

Barely visible in the day, whatever color I’m feeling (red lately)