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
"Varmilo Officially Releases Contactless Electrostatic Capacitive Mechanical Switch Electrostatic capacitance machinery is the combination of electrostatic capacitance trigger principle and traditional mechanical switch structure. Different from the physical triggering of the conduction of the traditional mechanical switch contact, the electrostatic capacitance is triggered by calculation of the capacitance change in the switch body when the actuator is pressed, and the non-contact conduction is realized. Although it is a electrostatic capacitance trigger mode, Varmilo refers to the traditional mechanical switch structurally, and improves its structure, so that while retaining the pure mechanical keyboard feel, there is no key spring sound, and the pre-travel can be more smooth.