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
Then I went abroad to study and so laptop keyboards were all that I knew until the K70 RGB. It was bought from my performance bonus paycheck after my 1st year working so I did my homework. I watched/read reviews of keyboards and key switches and decided that I want MX Brown. I was happy with the keyboard for a while but then an (un)fortunate turn of event where I melted half of the stock keycaps with a blowdryer LOL. It got me into researching deeper about keycaps and mechkey overall.
Right now I'm using a Novatouch with Filco SA keyset (Granite R4 prior and waiting patiently for GMK Carbon).