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
Any cancelled orders are just straight up cancelled and probably put in a closet at MD HQ. As suggested below, you can also go to /r/mechmarket on Reddit and see if you can buy someone's drop slot if they're wanting to cancel.
Otherwise, I'm assuming these will drop again unless something changes between IC and MD. There was obviously some falling out with Matt3o regarding the Whitefox and IC is now producing those on their own (without MD's help) so it's possible they will move to manufacturing all of their boards and terminate their association with MD. Still to early to speculate on that though as they just finished up their first kickstarter less than a month ago.