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
The 40% family is currently not covered, but it could be covered with blanks if there's some interest in that. Same for the Planck and ErgoDox. If you have a 40% layout, a Planck or an ErgoDox, please vote in the poll available in this link below so I can gather interest regarding a kit for these layouts:
https://mitormk.com/soon/
Mind you, this is an initial sketch for the project and I'd love to gather feedback about the design. Due to manufacturing limitations, it is impossible to offer novelty icons right now. I added an option to the poll, so if there's interest I'll try to add support.
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- GeekHack - https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=88581.0
- Vote on Massdrop - https://www.massdrop.com/vote/Joyland
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