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
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Signature Plastics Sets with very limited quantities and/or no base kits
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SA Carbon
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XDA Godspeed
https://www.massdrop.com/buy/massdrop-x-mito-xda-godspeed-custom-keycap-set We are excited to make these types of drops more regular and we hope everyone enjoys the coming New Year! 12/27 Edit: There is no XDA Scrabble keycaps for this Re-Cap. The email we've sent had it listed and that is incorrect. 12/29 Edit: Issues averted - I will be opening up more 4 orders per user (2 additional kits) at 12pm PT. You can purchase up to 4 different kit per user now. To edit your orders, go to your transactions (https://www.massdrop.com/transactions) and there should be a button that allows you to make changes. We will open this up for more 2 more kit purchases at 12 pm PT. on December 30. This means each person should be able to order up to 6 different kits. 12/30 Edit: We'll open this up for 4 more kits for a total of 10 kits at 12 pm PT. on December 31.