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
one thing, when i opened the box i blacked out for a moment, and my co-workers said that i started glowing, and shouted "And now at last they come. You will give me the keycaps freely! In place of Baby Miami you will set up Avatar. And they shall not be tasteful, but beautiful and terrible as the morning and the night! Bright as the sea and the sun and the snow upon the mountain! Garish as the storm and the lightning! Stronger than a mild psychedelic. All shall love them, and despair!" so that was weird