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
As for the keycaps I like to keep defaults on for a little while at least, especially for atypical layouts like this where I need to relearn the location of functions & shortcuts, especially when I'm switching them out for blanks in some cases, but I'll definitely be switching them out eventually. I love the look of DSA for smaller boards like this, I wish the pro modifiers for Quartz were still available! But I might actually get this dyesub set from Geekkeys (http://www.geekkeys.com/white-dyesub-pbt-104-keyset-magenta-fonts/) and mix them with some white PBT blanks I know I have lying around somewhere.
Again, this is ME, YOUR experience with a mk like this might be totaly different!
Popular drops often redrop once the last drop has been shipped, some, for whatever reason, are one time only. If the KC64 should fullfill your needs, maybe get it, the price, even though this is new and quality is unknown, is good.
Keycool so far by me isn't known to build/sell shitty mks, ok, let's not talk about Kailh switches, they seem to be doomed, whatever they're going to do/improve :)
https://www.massdrop.com/buy/kbparadise-v60-mini-gateron redrops every other day for example, just look around and read to get impressions.