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
https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/ax18u6/very_shiny_gmk_keycaps_what_do_they_look_like/
https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/jeiw81/a_few_keys_shining_on_my_gmk_set_after_a_month_of/ People even ask to prevent this 'feature': https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/fcb9ok/gmk_keycaps_shining/
https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/f1phmc/how_to_keep_gmk_keycap_look_new_avoid_its_getting/
https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/nif83h/my_recent_build_also_trying_a_method_to_reduce/ And people even offer service to remove the shine: https://www.reddit.com/r/mechmarket/comments/bksitt/service_removing_shine_from_abs_keysets/ I can understand sound being better on ABS keycaps or having more colors, but defending ABS just because your keycaps did not shine (yet) is a funny counter-argument. Yup, you guys paid extra $$ for these sets, but it was for thicker material, colors, and better quality, as long as ABS covers. 'better' is still subjective here in my opinion. Also what defines 'high grade' ? Hype? Price? In my opinion, my EnjoyPBT keycaps are the best keycaps I've used ever!