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
Also thinking on picking up a set for a Planck project at a later date. Would that also be Blanks and the PhD Planck set?
The kits only come with the keycaps displayed, does that make sense? It's not possible to completely fill any keyboard with only one blank kit.
For the Planck you could get Alphas + PhD but the Dvorak UK layout tricky...
Let me know if you need more help!
I think I shall just get the Mods and the UK kit for now, and then source a set of blank caps for the Pok3r. Probably similar with the Plank, too. These keycaps are too awesome to pass on.
Unless I settle and get the US Dvorak layout, but simply have it mapped to UK... Decisions! Not having it perfect would most likely bug me to no end.