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
Example 1: Baseball cards. They're pieces of cardboard that probably cost 20 cents to produce, yet some of them sell for hundreds of dollars. Why? Because someone out there wants them THAT much.
Example 2: Any kind of art (but we'll say painting in this example). This takes a lot of time to create, and they could sell for thousands of dollars, or sit on the store wall forever and never see a buck, all depending on who happens to walk in and decide they want the painting and that they'll pay whatever they think its worth.
Do you understand now? Its a matter of who really wants this spacebar. Is it worth $60 to you? No. Is it worth $60 to the drop participants? Yes.