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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Sorry, I didn't look up details .. I just bought it right after seeing it because it's .. just .. so .. good.
All in all, they look great and I don't mind the price point. However is it normal for individual caps like these to cost as much as $25 or more? It's my first time buying caps for my mechanical keyboard thus I don't know much.
Thanks for your input, mate.
All in all a great buy, but its just really painful for me as an Aussie with our bad conversion rate atm.
Just curious.
In that time I have bought: 12 3D printed caps. 12 artisan machine made caps. 4 hand poured mold caps. 0 handcrafted/limited caps.
This should give you an idea of the rarity of those very elusive after market priced caps. I myself leans more towards the machine ones for a few reasons, amazing detail and quality plus affordability and the fact I can almost never not get one.
The most sought after artisan cap makers hold raffles at a certain time with certain conditions etc. I have tried 3 raffles and lost 3 times. There are people who have tried for a year and not won. There are even rumors people made script bots and multi-accounts to win these raffles and buy out as many caps as possible just for resell later. I believe it. When a cap costs $20 to $50 and is hand made even hand poured and in limited supply with a potential for resell at 10x purchase price, why not? Sad but that's the world we live in. So I don't even bother with those raffles anymore.
I am very happy with what the guys who make the machine mold caps provide. For that reason they get all my money.
Not so short. Damn.
I guess it's fair to say, there's more demand than supply even with good quality products all around. Anyways, good to know about it and thanks for your detailed input. It's much appreciated!