If you compare to the ROCCAT Kone XTD, you might think that customisation options are limited for the Kone Pure; compare to many other mice in a similar price bracket however and it might surprise you. The Kone Pure features an LED-illuminated lighting logo, in theory capable of 16.8 million colours in RGB space.

Lighting colour is customised via the ROCCAT software utility which allows the selection of a colour in a 2D spectrum or selecting colour via its RGB value. Whichever colour is selected, the response on the mouse is bright and rich; we should note that our photos slightly desaturate the lighting, bleaching out the colour. The LEDs do appear to have difficulty matching particular colours with low intensities in a particular RGB field: a little (<5) blue in a strongly red signal will tend to appear more pink/purple than expected; a little green creates a strongly orange/yellow etc. That said, you should be able to achieve a pleasing result if you play around a little. Whilst perhaps not quite 16.8million different colours, there are at least dozens and probably hundreds of colours to choose from.



The sharpness of the ROCCAT logo's illumination is good. There's a very slight amount of bleed underneath the black at high LED intensities which is visible without ambient illumination, but it's pretty difficult to spot without looking for it. The lighting itself could be more evenly distributed, but equally it's orientated towards a typical right-handed user, reducing the distraction to someone sitting nearby. We're not sure if this was a deliberate design decision, but it's worth highlighting.

The mouse also features breathing and fully-off modes for lighting. Adding the ability to change the rate of the breathing pulse, or simply adding a means of flowing through all colours, would be a pretty cool; however as configured the effect is smooth without any significantly perceptible step transitions between intensities.



Colours are stored on a per-profile basis, meaning that a particular colour combination could be used to discriminate between said profiles. Once again as with the Kone XTD, it would be useful to enable the user to tie colour more directly into current DPI, one of the few features in which the Kone Pure (and Kone XTD) lack compared to competing products.

Overall, the colour customisation is great, enabling user choice for either subtle highlight or desk centrepiece.