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
Not exactly complaining about the price, but my understanding of mixing shit in resin and pouring that mix into a cast it has me genuinely baffled about the price; especially considering how little material is in each keycap. It's not like metal ore is mined, refined, ground, and done in batches of one all by Monks in the Himalayas...right? Hahaha
Just doing simple pours isn't complex but the after work can be. Many resin casting guys say the same. That's all I know. Probably didn't help much. But I also buy artist caps to support their later stages. ;)
Jokes aside, I absolutely understand the point you're making. My commentary is on the comical ludicracy of pricing too often soaring beyond reason to what you're getting in a general sense. I don't intend to belittle the product or the efforts made by the people that made it. It's just an issue with how I can't help but see things in a compositional fashion. I don't see bitchin' keycaps, I see cast aluminum in a pre-existant profile. It's my fault for not being so nerdy.