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
Now I'm using a cooler master masterkeys pro s with mx browns. I chose this option because the tkl format when using my mouse for long gaming sessions was far more comfortable with my limited wing span at only 5'6. I chose browns because at the time blues weren't available and since then I've grown to appreciate them as well.
What I'd like to see next for my boards is the troubled minds key cap set drop again. I would put them on my cooler master quickfire rapid-i, giving me a sleek set that sports my favorite fictional character on the keyboard I carry around for my laptop.