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
- The RGB lighting is great and there are many configurations for the lighting effects.
- Board feels VERY solid and once adding some nice, lubed switches, films, and quality keycaps, it feels amazing.
- Let's be honest----PRICE! This thing is definitely not breaking the bank.
Some things that I don't like...- This 2U left shift is a b****to find.
- Not a big fan of the 1U shift either.
- Like others have said, the software outside of the basic stuff is terrible. I have heard about an alt software but have not tried it yet.
Overall if you are just getting into mech keyboards, like me, I think this is a really good entry board. With all the customizing I'm about $350 in (switches, keycaps, custom cable, films, lube, etc) and that's not bad when there are boards out there that start off at that price and require soldering etc.