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
Honestly, since this board is hotswappable, I don't see why you wouldn't be able to just open the switch top and replace the stem/spring with different ones if you're not happy with them. To the best of my knowledge, the only real difference between these switches and others (not accounting for the various weights/feedback attributed to the various colors) is the housing.
(EDIT: Next paragraph rendered redundant by curie, feel free to skip it.) But, keep in mind, the Kailhs/Halo switches that come with the keyboard are designed with a "Light-Pipe" which helps funnel the light up to the key caps with a minimum of diffusion. MassDrop should be doing a drop for the Halo Switches sometime after the K-Type ships. Not to say that other SMD-RGB compatible switches won't allow the light through, it just won't be as vibrant as with the light-pipes according to Input-Club.
You can also check novelkeys.xyz They have Kailh switches and Outemu switches that are SMD-RGB compatible. The Outemu Teals seem to have similar specs to the Green switches you want.
Also, Input-Club has a comparative guide to mechanical switches on their website. While they haven't reviewed the Outemu Purples, or Teals yet, they do have objective and subjective info on most common switches that you'll run across. I believe the portion you'll be interested in is this one: https://input.club/the-comparative-guide-to-mechanical-switches/tactile-clicky/
I have some of the Gateron Greens that I got with my Glorious Modular Mechanical Keyboard (GMMK), and I actually ended up using exactly none of them in favor of some Outemu Blues that I had from another keyboard. But I started with the Blues for clicky switches, and now I generally use Tactile switches for my typing both at work and home. I'm using the Kailh Coppers (tactile) in my GMMK because speed switches, but I'd be very open to trying the Kailh Golds (Clicky, also speed switches).
Anyway, sorry for the rambly last paragraph. Good luck in your switch search!