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
DSA Season of the Witch
A keyset inspired by the intro sequence to the movie Halloween III: Season of the Witch. A haunting John Carpenter synth soundtrack. The fusion of technology and witchcraft.
Work-in-progress layout featuring: - Alternate blue accent keys - Split spacebar support - Complete UK ISO kit - Arrow kit - LED kit - As well as a few extra bottom row mod keys, out of which the Compose key stands out because it supports the typing of European characters on an otherwise English language layout.
Happy Halloween!
The colors I'm using are Signature Plastics ABS: Alphas - OAS on BFR Modifiers - BFN on BFR Orange accent keys - BFR on OAS Blue accent keys - BFR on BFN
Adding a full alternate colorway would be a quite big addition to the keyset. For the contest, I'd say it's impossible, I'm afraid. I am, however, taking notes on all feedback I receive now for possible future developments.