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
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What didn't you like about it? I've seen so much positive feedback from it so im curious to hear your opinion (which could sway me towards this drop :))
As for the Varmilo VA87M, I have 0 experience with it. If you're looking for a TKL in this price range I'd also consider the Leopold FC750R if you don't need backlighting and the floating keys.
After over 15 boards in the last five years I've settled on the following: 2 x Leopold FC660M MX Brown (daily drivers at home and at work) 1 x WASD v2 TKL MX Brown 1 x WASD v2 TKL MX Clear (won $100 gift cert from their twitch stream) 1 x CODE 104-key MX Clear