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
OG Cherry dye sublimated (PBT)> $250 (It is not known where these molds are now) OG Cherry double shot (ABS) > $100 (GMK owns these molds now) BSP dye sublimated (PBT) > $100 GMK double shot (ABS) > $100 . >A quality gap here . Gateron PBT > $90 JTK double shots (ABS) > $70 Vortex thick PBT dye sublimated > $70 SP SA double shot ABS > $100 SP DSA in PBT and ABS >$100 SP DCS double shot in ABS >$100 . . >A larger quality gap here . . Vortex double shot PBT > $40 Tai Hao double shot ABS > $20 Most OEM key caps sets . WASD, has the advantage that you can make your own set.
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