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
Hey guys - my first blog post thing here on Massdrop. Just wanted to share with you a passion project of mine.
The 1976 keyset has been one of my most absolute favorite keyset's I have ever seen, and I've recreated it with 80's colors and am currently running a group buy for it with Signature Plastics - Double Shot DSA ABS.
The set name is 1983 and I would like you all to check it out here.
Right now the 1983 Base Kit is on sale for $100 plus shipping.
http://www.mechkeys.ca/1983-2/
If anybody has any questions or anything feel free to get in touch with me and I'll do my best to answer them as quickly as possible. Thanks again for looking, and hopefully some of you guys want to jump in!