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
Not going to talk too much , Just wanted to show some of the custom Keycaps that I got from Massdrop and Shapeways!
(All footage was taken through my iPhone 6 Plus , Didn't edit or anything like that , tho tried my best to make it look good. Soz if pictures makes you cringe.)
(An older video , from before I had my whole custom set)
Corsair RGB Themes - http://goo.gl/5RH8Vp
Bee Keycap - https://goo.gl/yhVoM6
Weaved Keycap - https://goo.gl/0kScjM
Diver Keycap (2 piece set) - https://goo.gl/r115MN + https://goo.gl/KwE2uE
Plant Keycap (2 piece set) - https://goo.gl/rhNyQU + https://goo.gl/cPKrVc
Monster Keycap - https://goo.gl/1Abz1L
Dragon Keycap - https://goo.gl/nT234j
Bear Keycap - https://goo.gl/xaTgB7
Kitty Keycap - https://goo.gl/vxttXh
Pumpkin Keycap - Massdrop; https://goo.gl/dXR7cW , Shapeways; https://goo.gl/IyE4Vd
AMD Keycap - https://goo.gl/lqGa6A
(Well , May aswell let you know there's an NVIDIA version - https://goo.gl/Tr8Ve1)
Joystick (Arcade) Keycap - https://goo.gl/T4kVfH
Little Robot Keycap - https://goo.gl/VNNTKf
Thank you!
Cheers o/