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
Overall I am really enjoying these so far. My only complaint is that the way the plastic in the LED slot sits it looks like it may be impossible to fit these switches with SIP sockets. Other than that, the orange switch migth be the best switch I have ever used. I am extremely suprised. If epic gear tones down thier designs and starts using these switches they might become a huge player in the world of mech keyboards. - - - First Impressions:
clicky-tactile(purple): Feels slightly better than a cherry MX blue, probably due to the higher activation point. They also seem to be slightly quieter compared to the blues in my keyboard though that could be because they are not mounted yet.
Linear(grey): Not much to say, it's just a smooth well constructed linear switch.
Tactile(orange): Amazing, this is the switch I have been looking for. Feels like a slightly stiffer mx-brown but with a much larger tactile bump. The only switch I have tried that feels similar is an mx-brown where I replaced the spring with a black spring, but even that did not have this much of a bump. EPIC GEAR THIS IS THE SWITCH I HAVE BEEN SEARCHING FOR! PLEASE CONTACT ME SO I CAN GET 24 MORE SWITCHES TO BUILD A KEYBOARD OUT OF THEM!!!!!!!
I also plan on posting a full review of these switches to reddit in 1-2 weeks time, will post a link to it when it is complete