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 actually used that as a test before using them on my k70 rgb. I won't get back to the office before this drop ends so I cannot show that, but I think it will look good. Quite curious to see what gives the best back light result. These key caps have no translucent font, but they do have more space in between the keys, so more light from that.
Also, the bigger spacings reduce the amount of accidental shift etc presses, and make it easier to clean. And it looks amazing IMHO.
Went for the tall deco one, just for the bioshock feeling. :)