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
I wish I'd picked up colemak when I was learning my ergodox rather than waiting :(
The main reason actually was, that I wasn't used to keeping my hands really separated when typing which, obviously, would be a big problem with the Dox. That part should be settled now :D.
Workman layout:
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The maltron layout is also an option for a more efficient layout (the E key is on the thumb cluster) and can be used pretty easily on the ErgoDox.
Maltron layout:
I don't use Colmak, so I don't know. I do know Dvorak is supported for bluetooth keyboards, and I would bet that if Colmak is supported in OS X, it is also on iOS.