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
Our order has been submitted as of Monday, Dec 2. It typically takes up to 3 weeks for the order to be ready for shipment. At which point, it will takes another 2-4 business days for the shipment to arrive our warehouse. Once we have the orders in our warehouse, we should be able to have them out to each participating members within 24 hours.
So far everything is moving nicely along accordingly. Once the order is on its way to us, we will start be able to predict the estimated shipping time much more accurately. And we will report back once that happens.