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
my post had been meant as an answer for GokieKS and not as an advice to order at MK instead of MD. Regarding your question, i havn't ordered these keycaps anywhere, i'm a lot deeper down the rabbithole regarding keycaps.
Being from Germany MD is usualy hard to beat regarding price including shipping and i would prefer MD most of the time, because from my personal experience they had been an reliable partner regarding delivery and service when shit happened.
Other folks experience may be different and i'm not happy about everything that is happening here, but i can only speak for myself. MK might be a better/cheaper choice for US residents, if preordering is possible, i don't know, this is up to them/you.
Cheers