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
I have a WASD v2 keyboard that I gleefully put my caps onto as soon as they arrived. I ordered several sets of alphas. The black and teal spacebars seem to stay on decently, but the purple space bar won't stay fully on if I push even lightly on one end or the other.
The issue seems to be that the keycap stabilizer inserts ( http://www.wasdkeyboards.com/index.php/review/product/list/id/34/category/7/ ) don't fit snuggly enough, so pushing on one side of the spacebar pulls the stabilizer free from the other end of the cap.
Anyone else have this problem? Anyone have a good solution? Can you purchase stabilizer inserts that are just *slightly* larger so they fit better?
Thanks for any insight you might have!
I hope you're enjoying your caps. My only issue: more awesome caps than keyboards. Guess I'll just have to buy more keebs so I have place to put my key cap sets...