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
NOTE: The contest begins April 3rd, 2020 and closes on April 10th, 2020. Limited to one entry per person. Winner will be announced on this post on April 13th, 2020. No purchase necessary to enter or win.
APRIL 13, 2020 UPDATE
CONTEST NOW CLOSED! Congrats to @monoman for winning a brand new ALT keyboard! Please shoot us an email at social-admin@massdrop.com to claim your prize!
And, of course, a big 'thank you' to everyone who entered.