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 have any rough idea of the time it takes, please let me know! (Also would love to know the estimated time on my shipped status ErgoDox MD-628-33886-87078657, and if the shipping is tracked)
Any idea when you will run this again? Is it possible to run it with some of the other colours that SP has for these caps?
Working on other colors.
- Make the 2x keys all row 2 vertical (numpad +), the horizonal ones included are an odd shape for there
- 2 of the 1x row 3 keys ought to have a homing bar - Make the 1.5x keys row-appropriate instead of all row 2
Those should all be easy, as SP already either makes the key (for inclusion in the 104 key set of these) or has molds for them (the 1.5xs of different rows). If we're going to get crazy with it, maybe they could work up a mold for vertically dished 1.5x keys for the 4 vertically mounted ones?