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
Is there a NEW all Alps Keyboard with at least 104 keys being sold anywhere on the web?
I don't mean Matias's version.... so please leave that one out of this discussion.
You can still find new in box Dell Bigfoot from the 1990s on ebay. That is what I did. I put on the SP LightCycle DSA Alps caps on my new in box Dell Bigfoot as shown here. https://www.massdrop.com/talk/62/my-keyboard-and-drink-picture-thread/1780840
Was looking for a decent but ultra conservative 104 key keyboard that could use these ABS key-caps easily without any major modifications.
Such as it is to be an Alps fanatic and being surrounded by the dreaded Cherry MX sickness - 24/7 : (