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
A lot of the caps were too high up and had to be pushed down, they were all very uneven heights.
My Win key LED isn't working -
The keyboard is very pingy, especially the spacebar and other large keys which take .5-1s to stop making noise after I press them. Enter key as well. Normal keys are softer but just audiable enough to make me know it's happening even if I type without using the spacebar.
I seem to have gotten a new issue that others haven't talked of yet... my keycaps look pretty heavily used.
it's hard to catch on camera (really easy to see when rotating the board in the light, not so much when it's still)
If I put on headphone to ignore the pinging though, the board is pretty fun to type on. Clears are about as nice as I expected.
I also wanted to mention that of the first 6 keys I pulled each one of the LEDs were different from the other. By different, I'm talking about the temperature, *brightness* (that's shocking as a couple were a bit brighter than the other), and the amount of the led that's lit, etc. This is noted in the lowest brightness and becomes less apparent as the brightness is turned up. I could not capture the inconsistencies on picture. For the price paid, I expected a bit more qc, such a shame :( Then again, this is my first backlit mech and I'm not familiar with competitors and expectations.
thanks for the tip, i'll try that out tonight
or maybe im misinterpreting what you're saying.. i'm finding it quite hard to decipher. sorry.