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
Also I will be replace the keycaps pretty fast, I'm not a huge fan of white keys, anyone have any recommendations for black/dark colored pbt caps that are shine through? Thanks!
As far as keycaps go, these are out of stock currently but are a good choice when they're available again- https://mechanicalkeyboards.com/shop/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1329
Unfortunately, I had to put the stock keycaps back on, since, with the Ducky caps, I had to choose between seeing the legends and being blinded, or setting the brightness to a reasonable level and not really being able to see the legends. This was a shame, because I preferred the look of the Ducky caps and much preferred the feel of them.
If anyone tries other shine-though keycaps beside the Ducky ones, I'd be very interested in the results and if they let enough light through and feel less rough than the stock keycaps.