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
Standard size on the bottom row caps (Ctrl, Win, Alt and FN/Menu) is 1x1.25 and for the Spacebar it is 1x6.25.
If your k-board don't have that , you can't use the sets bottom row caps + the Spacebar. I have the Tai - Hao 104 keys Miami set (I also have the ANSI/ISO/UK* Suneshine set but I have never use it yet), on my ANSI Ducky One RGB YOTG with Cherry MX Blacks (Ducky Shine 2, 3, 4, 5 RGB and Ducky One has a standard bottom row size) the only problem I have with those 2 sets is that my k-boards are 108 keys.
* = Here in Sweden we have the ISO/Nordic layout and it is a hell to find good lookin ISO/Nordic keycaps sets, you can use the ISO/UK layout keycaps sets on a ISO/Nordic k-board but you don't have those 3 strange letters: Ö, Å and Ä we have here in Sweden in the ISO/UK keycaps sets, that's why I bought my first ANSI k-board some years ago and no more problem to find good lookin keycaps sets.
Right now I have 6 ANSI k-boards in all.