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
First time MD has done this so any Reps from MassDrop Central please explain yourselves or is it now you don't want anyone to buy too many key sets, which kind of defeats what Group Buys are all about ; (
Thought that in any Group Buy you would want all the people to buy dozens of sets each but not here, WHY the HELL NOT????
I'll verify with MD and you should be able to place your order soon, can you please try again by Monday evening?
I very much apreciate your great support and enthusiasm, as always. Let me know if you need further assistance.
Thanks for sorting it out quickly because having a fully functioning ORDER Page, can lead to great things or to immense misery.
Have one last question here in regards to a possible keyboard I'm about to own. Since everyone here is asking whether or not your designs can cover their keyboard completely, I need to know from you whether your key-sets will cover this; Leopold FC980M PBT Mechanical Keyboard (Brown Cherry MX) - SKU: FC980MN/EWP.
Here is a pic of it: https://mechanicalkeyboards.com/shop/index.php?l=product_detail&p=2055
Please let me know whether there is a possibility of complete key-cap coverage or not.
For the FC980M you'll need the following kits:
(Alphas + Modifiers) or (Cockpit) + Calculus + TsaFox
Because I know you're picky I'd like to make an observation though, note that the FC980M has 4 special switches above the Numpad - DELETE, INSERT, PAGE UP, PAGE DOWN. I have no clue what particular look you'll want to achieve, so it's important that you read this.
There's no possible way with our current kits to cover these 4 switches with the perfectly correct standard legend vintage blue keycaps. We don't have R1 DELETE and R1 PAGE DOWN keycaps available - in case you go with Alphas + Modifiers. If you go with said combination you'll be able to assemble keycaps to that cluster in many different ways, though. Which I'll list by the end of this reply.
In case you wanna go flat profile and order the Cockpit, then obviously you wouldn't have standard legends anyway.
Whatever you are placing an order for, just make sure you will have 4 keycaps with legends that you like to assemble to that weird cluster.
For example, if you go with Alphas + Modifiers + Calculus + TsaFox then you would have the following R1 keycaps at your disposal to assemble to said 4 switches located above the numpad cluster: BACKSPACE, PRINT, LOCK, PAUSE, INS, HOME, PAGE UP, TAB.
If you add the Novelties kit to your order then you'll have even more keycaps, like ROLL, PITCH, YAW, RIP JEB, AYY LMAO, ABORT, PANIC, EDL, SAS, DOCK and Godspeed Logo. I don't know the exact look you want to achieve, but there are plenty of options available.
If you go with Cockpit + Calculus + TsaFox then you'll have the following R2 keycaps to assemble to said cluster: ROLL, PITCH, YAW, EDL, SAS, DOCK and PAGE UP.
Tell me what you think and let me know if you need further assistance.
Chose: 2× Base Kit / Alphas: Solar Alphas, - Child Kit: Modifiers 2× Base Kit / Alphas: Lunar Alphas, - Child Kit: Calculus 2× Base Kit / Alphas: Cockpit, - Child Kit: TSAFOX 2× Child Kit: Novelties 3× Child Kit: Spacebars
That put me over to 11 orders and it went through nicely with paypal.
Cheers for that, nothing better than putting in an order for a non-standard keyboard layout plus might have spares to fill out another keyboard as well : )
MiTo your help here is invaluable, much appreciated.
Always willing to help - let me know if you require further assistance.