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
After working on your feedback, here's the kits the received some fixing. I couldn't add or remove everything you asked, but the balanced result can be seen below. Let me know what you think!
* Alphas - reviewed g and j, alignments will be fine tuned even further for the dye sub template:
Fn should be >* but I'm keeping this symbol exlusive for Tsangan just so non-standard users have a little something to differentiate their weird layouts. Technically, since >_ can have multiple meanings, the user can pretend that it means hack/code/win and Fn as well! I left this detail on purpose, for people to use their imagination and assemble >_ to whatever they want.
You read the convetion perfectly, so perfectly that you managed to catch this subtle change I did, thanks a lot for the attention!
If I need a 1U Ctrl, Alt, and Fn in color, my only option will be to buy the Ortholinear set? It seems kinda pricey for folks with White Fox and similar keyboard layouts. I'm curious to know why 1U Ctrl and Alt were excluded from the Bauhaus set. Thanks!
The Bauhaus has 3 x 1u in orange, it was a decision I had to make, because this set has so many kits and so many options... People all have different keyboards and making colorful/icons/text/etc available for everyone is impossible logistics-wise.
If you buy the Bauhaus you'll have *some* colors to work with, but not all, compromises had to be made.
Hope you understand!
Even if you get ICON MODIFIER, you are still missing 6 keys: - 4x 1u keys - 2x 2u keys