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 texture work on the surface is pretty great and is on-par to what JellyKey advertised on its campaign in terms of crater density, variation, and detail, and the little Earth thing is domed and has an inner layer of clouds within the dot encapsulated within the resin, which is pretty cool and something not even in the campaign photographs; this is pretty impossible to capture in photo, but I hope the side-shots give you an idea of what I mean. That, and the stars are nearly impossible to capture too; you need to be looking at them at the right angle to see how clustered they are- and it's really a gorgeous marvel to behold when looking at these in person. There is an impact on responsiveness (youtube(dot)com/watch?v=FKG7M8DPyHU) but overall- I'm really happy with my purchase- the caps gorgeous (trust me, I cannot state this enough- pictures do not do justice to just how awesome this looks in-person) and this keycap has found a home on my keyboard. :)