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
Anyway, I got this numpad from last drop and it is sitting on the left of my HHKB. I was wondering what proper Topre board would feel like and I wonder if it would be a lot different from Royal Kludge Topre clone I got over a year ago. This was the cheapest Topre board I could get and besides I need a numpad for spreadsheet but I hate full size board so here it is. So I later bought HHKB when I visited Japan 'cause either store wouldn't ship to my address or some stores would but shipping is another 40-60$ extra(was going to Japan anyway so why not buy from store over there for 170$) Gotta admit that typing numbers with left hand is much slower than with right hand but I can manage.