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
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Do the copywriters at MD not know that Google exists? This is insulting to us, and to the other people at Massdrop that do a good job representing the products honestly. Sure we understand that you want to give ad copy conceptual glitter and pop, but that is no excuse for bald-face lies or misleading ad copy that I have seen over and over in certain categories, particularly MK.
Edit: I'm trying to give you guys the benefit of the doubt here, so if this is because the drop coordinator simply reproduced the producer's own copy that is one thing, but still the copy should at least be proofed for factual accuracy before posting.
You will see 6063 in that list of Aerospace Aluminums.
Not that it really matters IMO at least.. Aerospace Aluminum, Surgical Stainless Steel.. these are all gimmicks.