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
Although we are quickly reaching our cap for attendees I wanted to put this here as a big thank you to Massdrop for their support in making this event even better. They are a key player in the mech game now, and have shown they are 100% for supporting the community.
I cannot yet disclose what they are providing for raffles at the event, but I can say they were extremely generous. Special thanks to Harley and Kunal for contacting me so quickly and being the missing link between consumer/enthusiast and company. We in the community greatly appreciated folks like you, and we hope companies take a note from MD in the community participation aspect.
For more details check out the event page on:
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/4mb7py/austin_mechanical_keyboard_meetup_hosted_and/
Geekhack: https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=82592.msg2188338#msg2188338