FlickWho

Good point, that's entirely possible.

That makes sense, and honestly those keys don't bother me so much. But why invert the other keys as well? I can't imagine people were complaining that not enough light was passing through the square brackets (or maybe they were, I don't know). And why print the quotation key completely upside down?

They're oriented properly (so the '1' looks like a one and so-on), but they're inverted. So the symbols are on the bottom and the numbers on the top. It's very strange hitting Shift to type the symbol on the bottom. That's true for all the other keys as well - the symbols that would be on the top on other keyboards are on the bottom here. For example, the greater-than and less-than symbols are on the bottom of their respective keys with the period and comma on top. Yet hitting Shift gives the greater and less-than symbols. The only outlier is the single-quote and double-quote; those are actually printed upside down. And this is true for many gaming keyboards. Too weird.

I'm surprised I don't hear more about this, but why are all the symbol keys (brackets, semicolon, quotes, etc.) and number keys on the Strafe printed upside down? What is the reasoning behind it? Flipping the key doesn't work, because then the symbol is upside down (except for the quotation key, which, curiously, is the only one actually printed upside down), and the key's flat side is along the bottom, out of alignment with the other keys. I use it as a regular keyboard as well, and I can't get past that. In all the reviews I read and watched before buying, I never heard a word mentioned about it. I noticed other Corsair keyboards are like this (but not all, strangely) and many other companies do it with their gaming keyboards. But WHY? Can someone help me to understand the logic behind it? Anyway, love the keyboard, but that is really throwing off my typing. I don't know if I'll return it over this, but I may have to.