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
So with this drop...it's only the keys that are being sold? Where do I get the board to attach these keys to?
www.mechanicalkeyboards.com (great place to find good quality keyboards for a reasonable price) www.amazon.com (great place to find cheap keyboards) www.daskeyboard.com www.wasdkeyboards.com (looks most like the renders, but shipping is expensive) www.elitekeyboards.com www.reddit.com/r/mechmarket (great place for used mechanical keyboards)
This is not a comprehensive list, but it gives you a starting point. If I had to give a suggestion, if you are really new to mechanical keyboards and don't know what you want, you should get a switch tester (such as the Varmilo one that is currently being dropped). You can find other switch testers on Ebay or Amazon.
After that, if you still don't know what you want, you may want to try cheap or used mechanical keyboards (be wary of Havit for stabilizer reasons). There is no shame in finding something you love that just happens to be cheap or secondhand.