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
Sept 25th Update:
MT3 3277 is now live, and the coupon should work on it, it will discount up to $120 worth of product ordered in a single transaction. Note, after you've used the coupon, it's gone, if you cancel your order, you don't get the coupon back (and we won't reset it for you), so make sure you know what you want when you place your order. The coupon expires Dec 31st, 2020. We're hoping to release 3 more MT3 sets in October/November, Black on White, White on Black, and Camillo. All three are subject to potential delays, i.e. no promises! Now that there is something concrete, I'll send an email to everyone who has the coupon to let the know that they can use it. Edit by Elbert: "Carmillo" typo fixed. It is indeed Camillo.