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
From the looks of it, we'll be able to offer all six of these Cherry MX switch options during the next Ergodox Massdrop.
We're working on getting the last round fulfilled and the new round launched as promptly as possible!
We'd love to offer a drop just for switches, especially with the more exotic types, but we have a hard time keeping enough to fulfill the ErgoDox kits. Because of that, we probably won't be offering any switch drops in the coming days.
Edit: this is for the whole conversation, I imagine you knew that, Will. :)