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
Regarding < and >, it's normal to have the comma and period below them as that's what you traditionally get by pressing shift is above and what you normally get is below. They are swapped only on some gaming keyboard such as Razer or Corsair ones in order to allow the LED to shine though the main function of the key rather than the shift one.
I hadn't realized that, and it makes sense considering i have a Corsair keyboard! lol Thanks for the explanation
Would any of the basic non-gaming keyboards work with DSA keycaps? Obviously your WASD V2 works fine. I assume Ducky, Glorious PC Gaming Race, Cooler Master L keyboards that have the standard layout would work too? I use MX browns. Basically looking for a mech kb that has RGB or some kind of backlighting WITH num pad that would allow me to try DSA caps.