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
For the Mac users, I found these backlit modifier caps that I'll be trying out. (The CTRL uses 6.25 spacebar)
http://www.maxkeyboard.com/custom-mac-modifier-backlight-keycaps.html
Regarding the color, the metallic nature seems to make it look brighter or darker depending on the lighting conditions around it. In a darker lit area, it looks really dark like actual space gray and in more brightly lit areas, it reflects a lot more of the light and looks brighter like a regular silver macbook type color.
Also, has anyone been able to get this thing to connect using a Type C to Type C cable? I tried 2 different Type C to C cables and the board wouldn't power on with either.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B077S33MMV
https://www.amazon.com/Cable-iXCC-Google-MacBook-ChromeBook/dp/B017TJNGUU
The usb RAID box works fine with that red cable. Transfer speeds are the same.