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
Ordered an all Grey Casing with the "Typewriter" styled key-caps all in CherryMX Brown switches because she has to be the one using it rather than me. Always safer to go with Browns rather than the gaterons, simply because I don't trust their longevity here.
CherryMXs always last longer when used over time.
The TKL which I used quite a bit, started having a different feel when used. The keys I used most had taken on the task of wobbling when pressed and they were far easier to push down. The other keys that were not regularly used attained their firmness and wobbled less.
Granted, I'm no light fingered ballerina when using my keyboards but these Gaterons, lose their firmness far quicker than any CherryMX switched keyboard. You will find out for yourself when you buy one of these and use it for over a year. Remember Gaterons originally are just cheap versions of the CherryMX, so why take a risk when spending your money?
I was curious in just trying the gaterons out but in the end the choice was clear, the original Cherry's were the way to go.
This of course is just my decision, so don't go scribing it upon any Tablet and run down the mountain and later proclaim it as the only truth worth knowing ; )