Outemu Cream Yellow vs TTC Silent Bluish White
Money is the honest first difference between the Outemu Cream Yellow and the TTC Silent Bluish White: one is budget friendly and the other premium priced, multiplied by a full board. Our full switch library cross-links them because this matchup keeps coming up. Start with the A/B bursts below, then take the spec table and the picks in order.
Hear them back to back
simulated from real specssound loads on your first tapShortcuts: press A or B anywhere outside a text box to fire that burst. Use the volume trims to loudness-match the pair before judging which sounds better.
Spec by spec
| Spec | Outemu Cream Yellow | TTC Silent Bluish White |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Tactile (silent) | Tactile (silent) |
| Brand rates force at | actuation | actuation |
| Actuation force | 45 g | 42 g |
| Bottom-out force | 60 g (our estimate) | not published |
| Pre-travel | 2 mm | 2 mm |
| Total travel | 3.3 mm | 3.5 mm |
| Silent (dampened) | Yes | Yes |
| Factory lubed | Yes | Yes |
| MX-compatible stem | Yes | Yes |
| Price tier | Budget | Premium |
| Street price | varies | varies |
Both makers rate these at actuation, which is the one case where the advertised numbers compare directly. Every other force row still has to be matched basis to basis. Outemu publishes no bottom-out figure for the Outemu Cream Yellow, so the figure marked "our estimate" is our own derivation from the forces that are published rather than a rating. How that derivation works .
Verdict
The Outemu Cream Yellow and the TTC Silent Bluish White are both tactiles, so nothing separates them at the fingertip until you look at springs and acoustics. Price splits them too: the Outemu Cream Yellow is the budget friendly option while the TTC Silent Bluish White sits in the premium priced bracket, which adds up across a 70 switch board. The Outemu Cream Yellow is the firmer of the two at actuation, 45 g to 42 g, though 3 g is not much to choose between. Our picks: the TTC Silent Bluish White for gaming and typing, the Outemu Cream Yellow for a shared office.
- Gaming pick
- TTC Silent Bluish White
- Typing pick
- TTC Silent Bluish White
- Office pick
- Outemu Cream Yellow
Force curves
Outemu Cream Yellow
Outemu publishes no bottom-out force for this switch, so the 60 g at the end of the stroke is our estimate and the run into it is dashed. Everything up to actuation comes from the published numbers. How we derive it.
TTC Silent Bluish White
TTC publishes no bottom-out force for this switch, so the dashed end of the curve is an estimate, not a spec. Everything up to actuation comes from the published numbers.
Outemu Cream Yellow or TTC Silent Bluish White: the long answer
Cost is the honest headline on this pair, so take it first. The Outemu Cream Yellow is budget friendly, while the TTC Silent Bluish White is premium priced. Both come factory lubed, so neither needs work out of the box.
On to the mechanical side. Outemu and TTC are both selling you tactiles here, so both give a finger something to aim at on the way down. Spring weight barely separates them, 3 g at actuation with the Outemu Cream Yellow on the firmer side, which most fingers will not register. They register at the same 2.0 mm, then part company on depth: 3.5 mm on the TTC Silent Bluish White against 3.3 mm on the Outemu Cream Yellow. None of these gaps is large. Stack them up and they still point somewhere, but gently.
What the table cannot tell you is how either one lands in a room. Put them through the player above and the Outemu Cream Yellow lands as dampened tactile tap, low and dry where the TTC Silent Bluish White lands as soft dampened 'puc', bump intact. Both carry factory dampening, so this is a contest between two of the quieter switches you can buy rather than a loud one against a quiet one. As everywhere on the site, these are simulations built from published specifications and documented character. Accurate enough to compare, not a recording.
So who should buy which? The TTC Silent Bluish White answers both the gaming and the writing question. On speed, the two are close enough here that either works, and our scoring gives it the nod by a hair. On typing feel, nothing about it gets tiring by the afternoon, which is the whole test for a writing switch. The Outemu Cream Yellow earns its place only when the room matters, as its dampening keeps the sound from carrying across the room. Match the trims above, play both, and trust whichever one you keep replaying.
For either one on its own terms, read the Outemu Cream Yellow page and the TTC Silent Bluish White page. If you are here to check the board you already own, use our free keyboard tester.
Frequently asked questions
For gaming, should I buy the Outemu Cream Yellow or the TTC Silent Bluish White?
We pick the TTC Silent Bluish White for gaming. Honestly either is fine here. It takes the nod once the scoring is added up, and only just.
Is the Outemu Cream Yellow quieter than the TTC Silent Bluish White?
Neither wins on volume, because both are silenced. What separates them is what is left after the pads: the pitch of the press and how muted the release feels.
Outemu Cream Yellow vs TTC Silent Bluish White: which one is the heavier press?
The Outemu Cream Yellow is heavier: 45 g against 42 g, both measured at actuation, so this is a fair like-for-like comparison.
Which is cheaper to fill a board with, the Outemu Cream Yellow or the TTC Silent Bluish White?
The Outemu Cream Yellow sits in the budget friendly bracket and the TTC Silent Bluish White in the premium priced one. We do not hold a reliable per-switch price for both, so the bracket is the honest answer rather than a total.
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