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
I was also lookin for a ISO rainbow keycaps set for my Ducky Shine 2/3 ISO/Nordic k-boards last year but nothing.
To solve this problem I bought a ANSI k-board (number 4 it is on way now).
You can use the ISO Pink Big Enter + ISO small Left Shift from this set and then buy a ANSI Rainbow keycaps set from Massdrop or AliExpress and replace the ANSI Enter and ANSI Left Shift with the ISO Big Enter + ISO Left Shift.
I did this with the White Ducky k-board on picture above.
Not lookin good but I can use a rainbow keycaps set on my ISO k-board if I want.
The problem is that you have to buy 2 keycaps sets instead of one set.