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
Piano & Classical Music Inspired Keyset Hi, I'm currently running this interest check for a theme/colorway that I have been very passionate about, which is from GMK Maestro. The cherry-profile doubleshot ABS version of Maestro has ran a successful group buy in February 2021, and now I'd like to introduce the thocky version in SA profile form. Without further ado, here are the kits that I plan to offer (these are not final):
More render images and (future) vendor informations are on the Geekhack IC Thread. Do visit and leave comments there, as I am more active on said forum than here! Alternatively, if you are genuinely interested in buying this set come group buy (Estimated around Q3/Q4 2021), please show support and provide suggestions that you'd like to see on the IC Form. Thank you!