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
But it's just impossible with this price and what with all the other exciting stuff that has dropped lately; i.e. BananaSplit 60, XD60, SA Carbon, Miami Dolch and all the accessories they come with (cables, switches, stabilizers etc).
I'm sorry, Clueboard. The timing for us is just wrong. :(
How far into the future might the next drop be?
Hoping you'll get a chance soon again at a better time with fewer big drops right before it :)
I'd say the appeal of Carbon for me are all those led-windowed keys and the massive nostalgia associated with orange terminal screens. :D
Right now I'm aiming for two builds: XD60 with Miami Dolch and BananaSplit 60 with SA Carbon. Might switch the key sets between them depending on if I can source the VE.A bars from the Miami dolch drop - I wasn't planning a split spacebar build yet when I joined the drop.
I have my eyes on the GMK Laser as well! It looks amazingly synthwave-y!
I just finished on my XMIT 60% bamboo with SA 1976, next in line is purple clueboard with split space and 1.25u shifts on both left and right with GMK Laser, maybe ISO enter, not sure if i'd want to go back after getting used to ANSI enter, Although i really like my SA i don't want to buy a set i don't adore due to the wait time :P
Re: the BananaSplit, for me, I'd likely use it for AltGr. In almost every single keyset drop, the AltGr key in the international kits is 1.25u (like on a full size keyboard) while on a 60% layout that key is almost always 1u. The BananaSplit could perhaps solve that, provided that it feels ok to hit AltGr between the two space bars.
Both shifts at 1.25u? What does that row look like? Always thought rshift is too long and taking up unnecessary keyboard real estate.