The AULA HERO boards add a 36-LED light box to per-key RGB, the AG75 uses twin-star RGB and the AC306 has no backlight. The F87 Pro V2 wraps a 360-degree light zone round its case, the L99 offers 20 modes, and the WIN68 and F99 Max light each key from below.
RGB lighting has become a checkbox on almost every keyboard box, which hides how differently manufacturers actually do it. Across the AULA range there are at least five distinct approaches, from a single row of LEDs under each key to a separate light bar that runs its own show. If lighting matters to your setup, comparing keyboard RGB lighting styles tells you far more than the words "full RGB" ever will.
The AULA HERO boards add a 36-LED light box to per-key RGB, the AG75 uses twin-star RGB from above and below the keys, and the AC306 has no backlight at all. The F87 Pro V2 wraps a 360-degree light zone around its case, the L99 offers 20 lighting modes you can set from its touchscreen, and the WIN68 and F99 Max light each key from below with south-facing RGB. On Evetech's price list, the AC306 set is R239, the WIN68 boards R449 and R699, the F99 Max R799, the HERO boards R719 and R899, the F87 Pro V2 R899, the L99 R1,099 and the AG75 R2,399 to R2,799.
South-facing means the LED sits on the lower side of each switch, pointing towards you rather than up through the top of the keycap. The benefit is practical: light spills more evenly across the key, and there is less clash with the style of keycaps many enthusiasts like to fit later.
The WIN68 HE and WIN68 MAX both use per-key south-facing RGB in about 16.8 million colours, set from AULA's driver or with Fn shortcuts. The F99 Max also uses south-facing RGB in 16.8 million colours, with preset and music-sync effects, controlled from Fn keys or AULA's software.
Both HERO boards combine south-facing per-key RGB with a strip of 36 RGB LEDs, the light box, running above the keys. The light box is the feature that gives the HERO its look, a strip of neon-style colour above the function row.
On the HERO 84 HE, AULA describes the light box as running its own modes, colours, speed and brightness, separate from the key backlight. That means you can keep the keys a plain white for typing while the box carries an effect, or the other way round. The HERO 75 HE shares the same 36-LED light box in black, orange and green.
The AG75 takes a different line with what AULA calls twin-star RGB: north-facing and south-facing lighting together, 170 LEDs in all, with 10 of them under the spacebar. Lighting from both sides gives the legends and the gaps between keys a fuller glow, which suits the AG75 Ultra's transparent keycaps especially well.
The F87 Pro V2 goes beyond the keys altogether. Alongside per-key RGB, it has a 3-LED spacebar strip and a 5-LED ambient bar, forming what AULA calls a 360-degree light zone around the case. It also has a 49-LED dot-matrix display that can show a live audio spectrum, which is lighting and information at once.
The L99 has per-key RGB in about 16 million colours with 20 preset modes. Its party trick is control: you can change lighting straight from its 3.98-inch touchscreen, with no software open on the PC.
The office keyboard in the range has an RGB backlight with adjustable brightness and colours, cycled with Fn shortcuts. It is kept simple, as you would expect on a work board.
The AC306 keyboard has no backlight. It shows status lights for Caps Lock, Num Lock and a low cell and nothing more, which fits its quiet home-and-office brief and saves its AA battery.
Warranty is worth checking alongside lighting: the WIN68, HERO and AG75 boards come with a 2 Years Local Warranty from Evetech; every other model on this list gets one year. See them all in the gaming keyboards section, and if you plan to change switches on a hot-swap board, check the keyboard switch range to see what fits.
The LED sits on the lower side of each switch and faces you, which spreads light evenly and suits many aftermarket keycaps.
On the HERO 84 HE, AULA says the light box has its own modes, colours, speed and brightness, independent of the key backlight.
Yes. The AG75 uses north- and south-facing LEDs together, 170 in total.
The AC306. It has only status indicators.
Yes. Its touchscreen lets you choose from 20 modes directly on the board.
Yes: a 3-LED spacebar strip, a 5-LED ambient bar and a 49-LED audio display.
Want a board that lights up your way? Browse the keyboards at Evetech and compare per-key, light box and wrap-around RGB styles side by side.
The LED sits on the lower side of each switch and faces you, which spreads light evenly and suits many aftermarket keycaps.
On the HERO 84 HE, AULA says the light box has its own modes, colours, speed and brightness, independent of the key backlight.
Yes. The AG75 uses north- and south-facing LEDs together, 170 in total.
The AC306. It has only status indicators.
Yes. Its touchscreen lets you choose from 20 modes directly on the board.
Yes: a 3-LED spacebar strip, a 5-LED ambient bar and a 49-LED audio display.
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