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
Meanwhile, I also just received caps from JellyKey's own GB for the Halloween Jack-O-Lantern, and the caps I received from that are absolutely phenomenal. Both the pumpkin ones are very well done, and the gooey effects on the brain cap are amazing. I'm not sure what's the cause in the difference in quality changes between these two different group buys (I also don't know if sculpting the Lion is much much harder than sculpting other drops, e.g. the Fly Me To The Moon or Halloween GB's), but I wanted to ask if anyone else noticed this.
Since JellyKey reads replies, to JellyKey themselves: I love all your caps, this is not a criticism but simply an observation. I also got the Rabbit and Moon Cake caps with this drop and they look amazing. Keep up the good work!