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
Received mine on July 24th (took 13 days to ship to Canada). The build quality is excellent and the board has some nice heft to it for its size. The ABS keycaps are lightly textured; this helps prevent fingerprints and makes for a comfortable typing experience. The form factor is well thought out and looks very classy. My main keyboard is a Corsair K95 MX Brown and I'm thoroughly impressed by the typing experience of the Gateron Reds I ordered--very smooth with a medium-light actuation force.
Nice keyboard really :)