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
Note that we'll only allow 2 kits per user to start. Based on demand, I'll start opening up more kits per user starting in the afternoon on 1/26. We hope this will be a good one!
EDIT: https://www.massdrop.com/talk/3161/keycap-re-cap-returns Link to what to expect!
1/26/18 EDIT: Going to open the drop up for two additional kits per user at 12:00 PT. Meaning each of you can grab up to 4 kits here! It's open now for 4 items per order, go for it!
Going to open this up for 1 additional kit at 5:00pm PT. This means each of you will be able to grab up to 5 things.
1/29/18 EDIT: Going to open up 2 more kits per order at 3:00 PM PT today.
Geez, it's almost like we are customers or something.
I'll edit the sticky message so people know what to expect.
One suggestion would be to do the order swap over the weekend at night when there is less activity on the page. That should allow you to cancel from one order and grab it on the other.
Yeah the prior comments were leftovers from the last run - I'll start editing those out so people know it doesn't apply anymore.
In other news, anyone selling a set of Amazing Chocolatier modifiers? :D
We are selling things we already have in inventory - so once sold out it will be gone :(
I'll make an edit on top as well!
The 2/9 date is to give our warehouse enough time to gather up each of the order and get it ready and packed out- there are quite a few orders for this drop alone too!
If you're trying to juggle between accounts/orders, just add some item to the list to keep the order open and always cancel that one last. I found the cancel order was a bit slow to time out and add it to the list and other times removing an item from an order wouldn't populate to the master list but the original account could see/add it only.
Odd stuff, it's a bit annoying when you have these recaps and you need 5+ sets in order to cover your keyboard. It's a lot easier with the TKL packages. I was bummed, wasn't quick enough to get the SA Godspeed Cockpit this time around.
I was able to merge one of my Yuri base set to my Yuri Ergodox set order. At 3am west coast time 2-3 days ago someone was moving 7 Yuri base kits! So I ended off piggy backed on that person being there were many available at that time. I was hoping that person or another person would move or drop a bunch of Yuri novelties so that I could complete my merging.
It would be a dream to have a “Combine order” or “Merge Order” button. This would be ideal because of limit restrictions.