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
We’re happy to announce that all of the KBT Pure Pro Keyboards have been shipped out. [Read paragraph above] Unfortunately, Vortex sent us the entire order of KBT Pure Pro Keyboards, with shine-through keycaps, rather than a combination of blank, shine-through and printed keycaps as ordered.
With a number of phone calls, we have clarified the issue and Vortex is making more sets of blank and printed keycaps for those of you who had originally requested them. The keycaps will be manufactured and shipped within 3 weeks (Vortex's estimate, not ours). Vortex has given us the go ahead to distribute the shine-throughs so people aren't kept waiting, and you'll get to keep the extra shine-throughs even after you receive your printed/blank ones.
Thank you for your patience, -The Massdrop Team
PS, I also have three orders that seem to be wrong, i.e. their selection is Black/Clear switches, which aren't available. Ash (or myself) are reaching out to those 3 people to correct those orders and switching them to Red/Blue/Brown switches. Those three orders won't ship today, because we don't know what color switches to send out to them.
-- I'll do my best to post an update later tonight when I get an update from the warehouse that they actually managed to pack up all the boxes before the courier truck arrives for pickup. They load them on skids, so it's not a simple "why didn't you just send the ones you finished packing???" when the truck arrived type of question.