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
Aghhh!!!! Massdrop! You keep doing it again and again! This option was *last* in the vote count, receiving 2 out of 122 total votes. About 1.6% of all the votes cast. Not even tied for last. Authentically dead last.
"Last" cannot by any stretch of the imagination be interpreted as "one of the most requested". One might, if one wants to skirt the truth without being called out in a lie, say that a keyset in the top half of those requested is one of the most requested but *this* one isn't even close.
I like these keys but to the Massdrop promotion department, I beseech you, in the bowels of the His Noodely Goodness, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, think it possible that you may be mistaken.