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
I own a Das Model S Pro keyboard that has the red switches and the same layout as the pictures in this drop (1.25+1+1+1.25+6(Space)+1.25+1+1+1.25) and the layout is a PITA to buy keycaps for. The keycaps are ABS on mine and it's not been easy to find a PBT set that includes a 6U spacebar.
I think the pictures on the das website show a model s with a "normal" layout.
The new OEM which I forgot which company it is, does the new "non-standard" 1.25, 1, 1, 1.25, and 6 space (the one you own now). So my advise is to only buy the Ultimate, Mac, 4 and 4C models (standard layout).
That said, I really kinda like the layout for daily use. Even if it is a little funky.