It’s been a good while since our last Womier keyboard review, and in the meantime the brand has dropped a few genuinely interesting boards – the kind that helped it properly carve out a name for itself in the enthusiast keyboard scene. And you know me: I’m a sucker for keyboards that actually try to do something different, especially when it comes to design. It always impresses me when a brand manages to pull that off, because let’s be real – a keyboard is a pretty limited canvas.
Nowhere is that more obvious than with Womier’s ERA75. It comes in six different variants, and every single one shows up with a ton of personality right out of the box – even before you get hands-on with the little DIY touches that let you push the theme even further.
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DESIGN
As the name suggests, the ERA75 is a 75% board with 80 keys, and it sticks to an ANSI layout only. We’ve been reviewing a lot of 60% keyboards lately, and even within the 75% category the ERA75 feels like it has a slightly larger footprint than you’d expect. That said, it’s still very much a compact keyboard in the grand scheme of things, it won’t overwhelm your desk, and it’ll fit nicely even in smaller setups.
As mentioned earlier, the ERA75 comes in six different colorways, and while Womier gives them flashy names like Interstellar, Cyberpunk, and Doomsday, the palette is pretty straightforward: purple, black, white, dark green, baby blue, and navy blue. Each variant shares the same overall design language in terms of the case itself, but the theme (and the name) is reinforced through a small set of accent keycaps – typically the big visual anchors like Escape, Enter, and Space.
Big, bold and beautiful
The Cyberpunk version leans hard into that pink-and-baby-blue vibe straight out of the game. Interstellar goes full space theme. And the Doomsday unit we’re looking at here comes with blue accents covered in logos and motifs that scream end-of-the-world: toxicity, nuclear waste, hazard signage – the whole post-apocalyptic package.
Even though the rest of the double-shot PBT keycaps are black across all variants, those themed accent keys alone would already be enough for most keyboards to stand out. But with the ERA75, Womier doesn’t stop at keycaps as the case design is doing just as much heavy lifting.
The Doomsday colorway will fit nicely into brighter setups
First off, this isn’t another boring rectangular slab with zero personality. The top edges are slightly blunted, which immediately gives it a sharper, more futuristic silhouette. And then you start noticing the details: the keyboard has these cutouts and sculpted grooves running around the top, bottom, back, and sides – like a mash-up of high-tech circuitry with a hint of Stargate mysticism thrown in for good measure. Even left completely “stock,” that design language alone makes the ERA75 look genuinely different from the usual crowd of safe, generic 75% boards.
But Womier takes it a step further. In the box you also get a stack of thick, high-quality reflective stickers designed to fill in basically every single one of those cutouts. And they’re not random either – the stickers are color-matched to each variant’s theme so they pop against the case. Our Doomsday unit gets silver accents, the black variant uses gold, Cyberpunk goes blue, and so on.
A slight incline makes for a better typing angle
It’s a clever, slightly unexpected way to spice up an already distinctive design, and I love that the “DIY” angle here isn’t about opening the board, messing with foam, or being a modding wizard. It’s a simple, approachable customization step anyone can do.
That said, if you want to apply everything, you’re looking at a good 45 minutes of work. Thankfully Womier includes a small pair of tweezers, because some of these pieces are genuinely tiny and you’ll need steady hands and a bit of patience to get them lined up properly. Womier also sells extra sticker sets separately, which is honestly a smart move – losing even one of the larger pieces can throw off the whole look.
The stickers give a nice DIY element to the keyboard
If I had one suggestion, it would be this: offer an option where the stickers come pre-applied from the factory, for people who either don’t trust themselves or simply don’t want to risk messing up (or losing) any of the pieces.
After all the visual flair, the ERA75 also comes with a knob in the top-right corner. By default it’s mapped to volume, which is honestly the only thing most people really need it for. The nice part is that it’s remappable, so if you’d rather use it for scrolling, scrubbing a timeline, switching layers, or triggering macros, you can. And if you don’t like knobs at all, Womier made that easy too: the knob module is hot-swappable, so you can pull it out and replace it with a regular switch, turning that spot into an extra key without the board looking awkward or unfinished.
Even the knob is hotswappable and can be replaced by an additional key
Of course, the ERA75 also comes with per-key RGB, offering 17 built-in lighting effects and full real-time customization through VIA. That said, I’d argue this is one of those keyboards where RGB isn’t really necessary in the first place – the board already has enough visual character on its own, and the keycap legends aren’t shine-through anyway, so you’re not gaining much in terms of practicality.
Maybe it’s just me, but on the Doomsday variant specifically, the best-looking setups are the simple ones: a clean single-color glow rather than busy animations. Personally, though, I spent most of my time with the lighting turned off, partly because the keyboard looks great without it, and partly for the battery-life benefits I’ll get into later.
BUILD AND FEEL
When it comes to sheer build, this has to be one of the heaviest keyboards I’ve ever used – maybe the heaviest. The thick aluminum chassis is clearly doing most of the work here, but a good chunk of that near-two-kilo weight also comes from the huge battery and everything packed inside. We’ve reviewed plenty of heavy boards, sure, but that kind of weight usually comes with full-size 100% keyboards. Here, it’s the size-to-weight ratio that really catches you off guard.
Beautiful design is made even better with the stickers
The upside is obvious the second you touch it: the ERA75 feels rock-solid. No creaking, no weird case noises, and absolutely no flex to speak of. Once you drop it on the desk, it’s not sliding anywhere, and if you ever manage to knock it off the table, you’ll mostly be worried about what it lands on. Your foot won’t enjoy it, and honestly, your floor probably won’t either.
Internally, the ERA75 follows a trend we’ve been seeing a lot lately. It’s marketed as a gasket-mount keyboard, but in practice it really doesn’t behave like one. And that comes with pros and cons. The downside is that you shouldn’t expect that softer, cushioned typing feel people usually associate with gasket builds – the deck here is simply too firm.
Rare is a keybard where RGB feels completely unnecessary
And it makes sense once you look at what’s inside, because Womier basically filled the entire case from top to bottom with dampening layers. You’ve got a whole sandwich in there: PET insulation film, case foam, PCB, acoustic pad, IXPE switch pad, PORON foam, and a flex-cut PC plate.
That’s… a lot.
The good news is that all that material does exactly what it’s supposed to do: there’s no metallic ping, no hollow “aluminum box” sound that you sometimes get with boards like this. Out of the box, the ERA75 has a more subdued, muted thock – it still sounds really good, just not as deep or as loud as some people might expect. If you like your keyboards on the quieter, more controlled side, this tuning will probably hit the spot.
PERFORMANCE
In day-to-day use, the ERA75 hits a really nice middle ground between reliability, versatility, and speed. It’s a proper tri-mode keyboard, meaning you can run it wired, or go wireless via Bluetooth or a 2.4 GHz dongle. Switching between modes is straightforward too: you’ve got a physical switch on the back, plus a couple of keyboard shortcuts to handle device hopping and pairing.
The tri-mode connectivity is very reliable
Most of my time with it was spent in wired mode, but I can confirm the 2.4 GHz connection is perfectly stable for casual use – no drama, no random dropouts, just works. That said, if you care about the best possible responsiveness for more competitive gaming, wired is still the way to go, since that’s where you get the low latency and the full 1000 Hz polling rate.
Switches are… fine, but not exactly the star of the show. Womier uses its own proprietary POM switches, and annoyingly they don’t list the specs on the product page. You also can’t just buy these switches separately from their store, so we had to do some digging. What we found is 50 g actuation force, 1.8 mm pre-travel, and 4.0 mm total travel. None of that is bad, but it’s worth knowing what you’re getting into. The good news is that the board is hot-swappable, so you’re not married to these switches at all – if you want something smoother, snappier, or more “performance” oriented, swapping them out is easy. As they come, they feel good for both typing and gaming… but they don’t really go beyond that.
Switches are not the best in class but they get the job done
Battery life is the next big talking point. The ERA75 has an 8000 mAh battery, and Womier claims up to 350 hours of use before you need to plug it back in. I can’t personally verify the 350-hour number, it heavily depends on how you use the board, especially with RGB – but I can say that a full week of heavy usage with RGB on is completely realistic. And if you turn the lighting off, I can easily see this thing lasting weeks, potentially close to a month depending on your habits. All that weight has to pay dividends somewhere.
And finally, software. Here, I’m genuinely happy that, instead of forcing some sketchy proprietary app on you, Womier goes with the tried-and-true VIA web configurator. That means you can handle basically everything, key remaps, layers, macros, profiles, and RGB – in a clean, readable interface, right in the browser.
CONCLUSION
The Womier ERA75 might not be the absolute best keyboard Womier makes, but I’d argue it’s easily the most unique. The case design and the whole sticker-based DIY angle are what make it stand out immediately, yet the rest of the package doesn’t feel like an afterthought – it’s still a solid, reliable tri-mode board with VIA support and a genuinely premium-feeling chassis.
No, this isn’t a lightweight “throw it in a backpack and take it to tournaments” keyboard – it’s basically a two-kilo desk brick, and it behaves like one. But when you can regularly find it below $100 on sale, the value proposition becomes hard to ignore: you’re getting a legitimately tanky, dependable board with a look that will pull comments from anyone who sees it.
