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
- Availability. This is a problem with MT3 as well and it stems from drop keeping the profiles as proprietary as possible. Make the sets available through international vendor partners. Make sure they keep your branding and such, but if you want to get a solid foothold in the market, make your product available in more of the market.
- Language support. Consider adding kitting for various other languages. As someone that is multilingual, I would enjoy having some support for other layouts/languages and if you are going to open up to international markets, then this should go hand in hand.
Otherwise, I'm pretty satisfied. The sets have solid base kits, the colors are great, legends are clean and crisp. Keep it up.