Animal Crossing Fan Designs Adorable Keycaps Based on Cat Villagers

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Animal Crossing Fan Designs Adorable Keycaps Based on Cat Villagers

Key Takeaways

  • The 26 cat villagers in Animal Crossing make up 5.3% of the roster, the highest of any species, and as a result many fans love this type of NPC.
  • One particularly dedicated fan created keycaps of their favorite cat villagers, those beingTangy, Punchy, and Bob.



A crafty Animal Crossing: New Horizons fan has tricked out part of a computer keyboard with key caps featuring the faces of some of their favorite villagers from the cozy game. While Animal Crossing: New Horizons lets players set up homes for several different species of animal villagers, this player has decided to hone in on cats for their decorative computer accessories.

Of the nearly 500 different animals that can set up a home on the player’s island, there are 26 adorable cat villagers in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, making up more than 5.3 percent of the game’s collectible roster. That’s by far the most of any species, with squirrels coming in second at 22 different villagers and birds — not counting more specific birds like chickens and eagles, which have their own official categories — come in third with 21 unique villagers.


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One skillful fan of the series has taken three of their favorite cat villagers and recreated them with custom-made keycaps using a PBT keycap base covered with stylized polymer clay. The three featured cats who have made the cut are Animal Crossing: New Horizons‘ Tangy, Punchy, and Bob, who cover the keyboard’s i,u, and y keys, respectively. The creator hasn’t mentioned whether they plan to continue adding more customized keycaps to this particular keyboard, although there are exactly enough cats in Animal Crossing: New Horizons to cover every letter of the alphabet.


Animal Crossing Fan Decorates Keyboard with Cat Villager Key Caps

This isn’t the first set of key caps made and shared online by this creator. Their Reddit account specializes in sharing custom-made keyboard designs, and in the past, they’ve also shown off some interesting Pokemon key caps featuring the likes of Gengar, Clefairy, Snorlax, and Morpeko. The creator also seems to have a fondness for Eevee, as their page features a key cap with the face of a shiny version of the Evolution Pokemon as well as two of the non-shiny version’s evolutions, Espeon and Umbreon.


While not limited specifically to the world of video games, their work covers other video game characters as well, as they’ve also shared images of hand-made key caps featuring popular characters from a variety of other video games. Among those video game characters that have appeared on this user’s page over its three-year run are Kirby, Shy Guy from the Mario franchise, and multiple monsters from classic MMORPG MapleStory, as well as replicas of the original Game Boy handheld console.

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