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
I ended up getting those Chinese typewriter keys, cause they do have some additional symbols. I figured that maybe I'd beg on the keyboard forums, asking if anyone filled a 40% or 60% with that set, and were willing to sell me their spare F-keys and symbol keys. I never did get around to actually doing that though.
Still... Adding a few media keys, even as an add on option, I think would go a long way.
Is there a reason for this? Really makes the set seem off.