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
The space bar is measured in keys? I think my space bar is 6 keys wide. What do you do with the other sizes? Sell them? The international set is a full set? I am not really interested in that set though. Sorry. I mostly want to add some orange to my black keyset where I changed the keys to media keys and the like. But want to know how this all works.
Do the R1 and R4 kits get made only if there are enough orders? Thanks for any tips and advice. Don't want to be bummed in February.
EDIT: Rereading the description, the community kit is for row 1, R1. Are number keys different than alphabet keys? Space Bar kit is Row 4. Are the 2 and 2.5 keys not the same size as shit and caps keys?
The space bar is measured in keys? - The measurement is done in u(nits), your smallest keycaps are 1u, your assumption had been correct.
I think my space bar is 6 keys wide. What do you do with the other sizes? Sell them? - Keep them for future projects or sell them at reddit or gh or ask here, shouldn't be a problem.
The international set is a full set? - Nope, only the keycaps shown, without the Carbon baseset from an older or future drop not that helpfull.
Do the R1 and R4 kits get made only if there are enough orders? - They should only happen if 150 orders per option are reached. We've three different options, for example two may make it and one doesn't. If the orders are close enough to M(inimum)O(rder)Q(uantity) MD might step in buying the missing ones for further drops whatever.
EDIT: Rereading the description, the community kit is for row 1, R1. Are number keys different than alphabet keys? - Yes
Space Bar kit is Row 4. Are the 2 and 2.5 keys not the same size as shit and caps keys? - All of this keycaps are meant as spacebar(s), The size is a different story, they should fit regarding size following "standard", but may have a different profile which may be odd.
Your mk seems to use low profile keycaps, not granted to fit well enough for your liking with the given Cherry profile.
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