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
Perhaps having GirlDC answer some questions for the community would help alleviate some people's concerns? I think it's unfair for people to accuse him of printing them without him having the chance to defend himself. Artisan caps are too expensive for me, but I'd absolutely love to see the process involved in making such an intricate figure.
The SVC is the tallest artisan I have. It's more in line with row 1 SA, and the translucent color has a nice shine with LED switches. I can take a pic later and post it when I have a chance.
But, I will say that I was wrong. I tested the fit issue with two other girlDC caps, but not this SVC one. Turns out this girlDC artisan is just like any other cap--a tight fit to get it on there, but when it does it goes right in and stays put! So no falling issues whatsoever. In fact, I couldn't even get it off easily with just my fingers.
That said, the size issue is still a thing, as will be evident in my pics. This is not a cap to have next to other ones, so your best bet is to have it as a standalone Esc on a TKL/104 board. The only MX board I have at the moment is a custom B.face, and I couldn't use the SVC cap next to any other ones without it pressing adjacent keys as well.
@YanboWu: Oh, wow. I had no idea these were 3D-printed. I own one and would've thought it was like any other artisan due to the quality. Holding it now, and wouldn't know it was from a 3D-printer.
For reference, it's a 60% B.face with GMK Triumph Adler, and adjacent to the SVC cap are Binge and Bro caps.