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
Now, what I am not happy about is the $18 COD ransom from DHL. The shipping on this drop was a complete mess. Sent to DHL, who happily charged me for handling on top of what I paid Massdrop, whom then handed it off to standard postal delivery with a COD. So if you're Canadian, the shipping shown for this drop will actually be double, because of how its shipped with this farce of a service from DHL.
@Massdrop, please don't do this again. Seriously, this is a mess. Just ship it via standard post, and leave DHL out of it. DHL drops a ~$20 charge / ransom on everything. The duty fairly owed, which is like ~$2, and then their handling fee; which should have been covered in the shipping already paid to them. The fact that they paid for COD service to collect that, while still using standard postal services, is absolutely absurd. Let me rephrase that, I apparently paid for the COD service in my original shipping charge, so I could be ransomed for my package at the post office.