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
fyi, here's a real picture of SP PBT DCS:
it's pretty damn thin and definitely not worth this outrageous price. you can get thicker better quality pbt caps from vortex and gateron for less than half the price of this set.
what a surprise, i have just had my daylie keychatter dose. Somehow a bad coincidence, your news about Carbon Black by Originative.
People that are not settled about pbt or dcs is what they absolutely want or need, vote with their wallet, and i can really understand that they prefer paying $30 plus shipping instead of $150 plus shipping, even though it's only look a like at first sight and not the same. And we're not talking about colors or special childdeals here, just fullsize with standard keycapsizes.
The market is getting harder and harder, therefore the quality has to speak for itself to justify higher prices, money is tight for many people.
https://www.keychatter.com/2015/10/09/whats-clacking-84-colors-to-choose-for-monarch-elemento-dcs-pbt-and-more/
http://www.originativeco.com/products/carbon-black
Keep up your good work, i'm enjoying it everyday!
And hey, thanks for reading KC! <3