Support for Alternative Layouts
This is a summary of how alternative layouts have been supported by kits such as Colevrak and Homing. It is not a discussion of alt layout performance and development, but if that interests you I highly recommend starting with Pascal Getreuer’s A guide to alt keyboard layouts (why, how, which one?). It’s a concise and comprehensive overview with links to some great sites that go deeper. He also has a separate Links about keyboards page. The Keyboard layouts doc he recommends explains layout goals and metrics in detail, summarizing the alt layouts discussed here as well as more than one hundred others. Sculpted-profile The majority of custom keycap sets are sculpted-profile (Cherry, SA, MT3, KAT, etc. - more on profiles generally here) so let’s start there. Because each row has a unique keycap shape, alt layouts require a unique keycap for each legend that moves off its QWERTY row. At first there were two The Dvorak layout was patented in 1936 by August Dvorak & William L....
Apr 23, 2024
If you're doing a scratch-build with this plate an an off-brand pok3r-compatible case, then you're good to go.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Mechanical-Keyboard-Plastic-Case-Poker-Universal-Frame-With-Screw-for-GH60-/351960745939?hash=item51f27ec7d3:g:f6AAAOSw4DJYgDFb
Oh, and I've had the Deep Space set a year so so back before I sold it. I think with a purple case and one of these plates, it would be thematically solid, no doubt.
What's cool about the pok3r / GH60 platform is that it's extensible. Sort of the Honda Civic of keyboards. Lots of mix and match parts.
That's a lot of money for something that doesn't support SA keycaps.