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
- UK
- Exotic
- Mitonauts
- Apollo Milky Way
- Ares Milky Way
- Lunar Milky Way
- F Row Contrast
- 6.25 SpaceBars
- 7 Spacebars
- Mini Bars
If you order consists only in these above, there is no point in waiting, since the keycaps were going to be shipped in a zip lock anyways.- Solar Alphas
- Lunar Alphas
- Supernova Alphas
- Apollo Mods
- Ares Mods
- Ares Mods
- Classic Mods
- Apollo Numpad
- Lunar Numpad
- Ortho Text
- Ortho Micons
- 40s
- Ergo
- Genespeed
- Mitospeed
- Norde
- Colevrak
- Novelties
If you ordered at least one of the kits above, consider selecting wait, since each kit will come in a tray + sleeve.