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
So, to start off, I'll go over some of the supported layouts (I'm sure there are ones I will miss, so if you don't see your layout mentioned here, please check the main page and see if the keys you need are supported. To be noted, there will be a separate buy for Planck, Ergodox and VE.A-esque layout support if the main set is successful enough.
So, the supported layouts are as follows: Standard 104, TKL and 60% (Pok3r and similar), 1800, 75%, WKL, HHKB (layout, these keycaps are not Topre stem), Whitefox (most variants), UK-ISO, FC660M/Clueboard. Includes a 6u, 6.25u and 7u spacebar, which can be used for whatever you see fit.
As for the colours, these are not GMK standard colours anyone else will be able to use. These are hand-picked, custom colours, and as such, there are no real-world examples. However, should the buy succeed and is concluded, I will receive colour samples shortly after which will give production a complete green light. High quality pictures will be posted, of course.
If it tickles your fancy, there is also a GeekHack thread where I post updates and any news about Plum! GH thread is here: https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=83969.0
Warm regards, Jessica
It's amazing. Great work.
One question, HHKB as in the set is Topre compatible?
One thing I am eager to know, will there be a space bars kit of various sizes? There was a space bar kit that got produced for the GMK Carbon with different sizes. I'm after two 2u space bars. A Blanks kit too. https://www.massdrop.com/buy/gmk-carbon-add-on-kit
I saw this drop pop up in my feed and was taken immediately by the colours :) Buying this set as a birthday gift to myself, my first keycap set as well. Keep up the good work, hope the drop goes well _b
I do have one question, though. You posted renders of this set previously on /r/MK and I saw that F1-F4 and F9-F12 had purple/violet/plum colored keys which are not shown on the set being sold. Any chance we may be able to get these keys at some point?
(Referencing this render here: https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/57sf51/gmk_plum_coming_to_a_groupbuy_near_you_soon/ OR http://i.imgur.com/BJYoFs8.jpg)
It is incorrect and I'm sorry for that.
What is shown in the GMK render (the one that has a whole bunch of keys and no keyboard) is what's included, no more no less.
Thanks for understanding.
Thank you for the response!
Thanks!
It's a render of an MX HHKB keyboard (similar to a Duck Viper) with backlighting, not a normal HHKB.