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
I emailed and was told that "shipping rates are negotiated depending on the volume associated with the drop along with other factors."
It seems that those factors do not include a volume of sales - the code shipped less units, than this has sold already. The factors seem to include a big "up yours" to Australians and Canadians.
I wish they had a clear cost for shipping, based around the size/weight of the object, rather than the random price gouge that they seem to have at the moment.
Full size keyboard shipping at $10 less then a minimalist 60% kit? That is totally believable.