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
Works and feels better than keyboards I have owned before, but nothing outstanding outside of typing on cherry browns. Has appeal for those who don't want anything more than a mechanical keyboard, but I was hoping to be blown away. Various backlight settings including brightness are nice to have. Lots of settings changed by switches on the back (good, but the modes can be quite complex to configure). Likely I will keep it on the same settings for the rest of its lifetime or until I lose the sheet that tells me what each little switch does.
There is a bit of external bias here because I paid more than I would have liked after $30 customs fees and the UPS delivery people were awful.