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'll even criticize a cap depending on its quality to price ratio. Still subjective.
But this is a spacebar unlike any other. Looks thick. Looks heavy. Looks awesome. And lastly, good luck finding an artisan spacebar, like at all. Most attempts have left warped bars even mass manufactured key cap sets sometimes come with bad spacebars.
I'm in on this. Been waiting for an amazing spacebar to drop.
Some people will buy anything. But you know, it's their money to spend. If they see value in buying it, then who am I to argue?
Still, $60 for a space bar is seems to targeting a niche within a niche.
These people that are hating so much on it are people that don't appreciate the artistic value of it, and that's totally fine that they don't or if it's just not their thing - No harm done at all, I used to be like that. But, when people criticize others for not sharing the same opinion, that's just plain stupid. This just in: Not everyone is the same. Deal with it.
The people that create caps like this aren't much different than the people that apply paint to a blank canvas and sell it for hundreds, thousands, millions of dollars. No matter how insane a $60 spacebar sounds to a normal person, for the people in the community that actually appreciate this type of thing, it's really not unreasonable at all. Yes, a lot of us would like it slightly different, or a bit less expensive, but we're paying for the rarity and the artist's vision, more than we are paying for just a piece of plastic.
It blows my mind that people are still so immature about it.
I wasn't trying to target you, Kamaka. I just kept writing after the first line. haha
I know what it means to value something others just don't get. I once spent $480 on a calculator. Mind you, it was from 1965 and weighs around 40 pounds, but I still spent nearly 5 bills on a CALCULATOR. To me, the pre-integrated circuit technology and engineering is an art form in and of itself, and I just simply love the old machine!
I see my keyboard as a personalized pieces as well. I built EVERY ASPECT of the hardware, and then put a really freakin' awesome set of keycaps on it. Then I put some more cool keycaps on it! I would absolutely love a fitting space to stand out. If Jellykeys ever puts out a space bar that fits the color of Danger Zone, I'll consider it... and I'd think it was worth it!