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
Corsair K95, Logitech G810, Razer Chroma Blackwidow, Mionix Wei and none of these would I classify as cheap as they range in price from $150-$200 dollars and none of them really made me happy, either the keycaps legends wore off, became shinny, were loose, led light going out, they all just seemed cheap and most would just throw on an aluminum chassis to give it the impression of better build quality.
I am looking for a good keyboard, I do like RGB or at least strong single color backlighting as I work in a low light room, I prefer the clicky blue switches and I do not care for the compact keyboards like the 60% or 75% I would either want a full layout or possible a tenkeyless. I can't afford a top of the line keyboard that cost hundreds of dollars i've seen some over $300 but I want something good, something I can customize the keycaps and something that will last as I am just trying to get by and cant afford keep getting new keyboards like I have been doing.
Hope to hear back from the community that can give me some good advice and thank you all in advance for anyone that reads my ramblings.
Geeknoid