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
Maybe if you want to carry around a keyboard in your pocket for use with your mobile phone or your tablet, but even then there are undoubtedly much better options out there.
I Mean obviously there is a demand for this since otherwise it wouldn't be here, but I just don't get it.
http://www.40percent.club/2016/11/mf68-revised-pcb.html
But of course those keyboards are quite a bit more expensive, and as @djensen47 pointed out this could verry well be worth it just for the parts. Anyway to each his own, I just find the layout choice particularily strange and ultimately impractical, wich is a shame because some things like retaining PgUp/PgDown arrows and having function keys readily accessible truly appeal to me
Or a sticker as a Fn key reference. "Fn+L is End"