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've previously been a huge fan of the Leopold FC660M (also in Green, White and Clear switches) and I am a convert to the Magicforce for a couple of key reasons*: 1. Standard spacebar mount spacing on the Magicforce (the FC660M requires modifying any aftermarket keyset spacebars), and 2. Standard right shift size (the FC660M's right shift is smaller than usual - it's the same as left shift).
You give up being quite as compact (the Magicforce is a tiny bit wider, one extra column of 1U) but... that's it.
Reliable, small but has arrow keys, standard key sizes - what's not to like.
Recommended.