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
Production of the Drop + OLKB Planck Mechanical Keyboard Kit V6 is nearly complete! A few critical elements have slipped a couple of weeks, and because of the Lunar New Year (that has been extended due to Coronavirus), we are certain we will not meet our estimated Feb 18th ship date. We're currently estimating a March 31st ship date, with a high degree of uncertainty due to the rapidly evolving situation in China. We'll provide timely updates once our manufacturing partners resume production and we have a better handle on the delays and spill over affects.