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
"The Core is tricky, I've never looked into getting one so I'm not having the easiest time guessing what the key sizes are - however, if I had to guesstimate, you need base alphas, 60% mods and tsangan (or UK, you need the short shift) for sure and then probably TKL to fill a couple of the remaining slots.
This is if you want 100% legend accuracy however, this is DSA which is a uniform profile so if you want you could mix and match some of the keys and probably skip a few kits - you could get novelties or accents instead for example to replace the short shift you'll be needing from the UK/TSA kit. Matter of fact, you could most likely just go with alphas + 60% mods and then novelties/accents of your liking to fill in the gaps and skip the other kits - that's what I would most likely do."
Mismatched labels would throw me off and since Core is 40% keyboard, I have some keys programmed "weird" with several roles. So, I prefer to use blanks for "outside" keys including modifiers. Unfortunately, current Blanks Kit does not work.
Core has the following dark shade keys: 10 1u, 4 1.25u, 3 1.75u. It would be nice if "Core" Blanks Kit including these keys can be offered. Core owners, if you agree, pls give your THUMB UP. If not, a fallback would be sourcing blanks from SP online website, but I rather avoid that hassle.