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
And I am kicking myself for programming with the nordic layout all these years. When I need ÆØÅ keys, I just use Ctrl+Shift to quickly change layout :) Also, most keyboards here are ANSI, so it also makes it even easier to spend all my hard-earned money for things like this ;)
if i use a real ANSI board that won't be a problem anymore, though it obviously doesn't have £. i guess i'll do some research to see if the programmability lets me make a key do £, in case there isn't an easy way to do it in whatever OS i use.
(i deal with a lot of linux and bsd systems too, so this keyboard using a standard detachable cable is also another plus, but makes relying on programmability more important too)
(sorry, this was rambly.)
on their progress shots tho i did like how the punctuation and numbers and stuff were closer together vertically and had some horizontal spacing, it looked like they had better centring on the ISO legends too (their ANSI legends are a little off centre, though that's only rly visible from top down, at the angle you normally look at it it's not very noticeable)