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 kind of understand, AZERTY is only used in Belgium and France (with different alphas), and yes MOQ must be hard. It's kind of an ouroboros syndrome here: the AZERTY community is small, and that will not change anytime soon since it's borderline impossible to find our variant with cool keysets.
I, for example, will probably ditch this hobby in the near future, because it's too frustrating to lurk on all the cool kits, and never being able to enjoy them personally. I was hoping for a kit which include every ISO variants, but i suppose it would drive the price up quite a bit. Any idea how we could complete this kit with a custom order from your manufacturer, even if it's more expansive ?
Thanks for the answers and have a happy drop