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
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I guess IKBC was just able to find a way of milling their aluminum cases for far less than Ducky was. I understand that Ducky is a respected MK company (I haven't had a chance to try out one of their keyboards, yet), but I'm not sure the name is worth the extra money. I'm sure that this keyboard will be of good quality, but the MF108 is not lacking in quality in the slightest, either.
If I didn't know of the MF108 I might not think this was a bad deal, but IKBC has already done this keyboard better, and for around $30 less.