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
Three Model Ms: $120 total WhiteFox: $170 Varmilo VB87M: $130 Planck: $175 Noppoo Choc Mini: $80 Pok3r: $120 TADA 68: $90 KBParadise V80: $130
That's what I have on hand. Total is $1015. It's been not quite two years since I found Massdrop and started buying keyboards again.
Waiting (patiently, or, at least, as patiently as I can): Kishsaver 77: $400 XD50/XD64: $180
That takes me up to $1595. That's pretty close to what I expected and represents only the stuff I could scrape together the money for, not what I wanted.