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 GMK Red Samurai is finally here!
For now, let me explain the name change for the alphas. Nishi (Latin w/ Hiragana) means "west" and Pure Hiragana (Hiragana monolegends) is basically gamers talk, for example, pure STR or pure LUK builds.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask.
Gear up!
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These are the custom color selections:
[Previously listed Pantone colors will not be used.]
We'll be working with GMK to get the right colors, so it may change if needed once we get color samples.
-------------------- Update 2/24/18:
I am trying to match the colors on renders from my [IC] and this is what I have so far. Unfortunately, I don't have actual samples for you, but I do have these Pantone chips that I am currently inspecting myself. Pictures were taken with a phone, so it won't have great color accuracy, but I think it will do fine.
1) Under natural sunlight in a room with shade:
2) This is what color you would see without much lighting:
3) Under direct sunlight:
4) Under a white LED lamp at night, it looks fine to me:
So whether you wanted a dark set or a lighter set, it looks like you just have to light it properly, but remember you would see something similar to image #2 without light. If anything, I might go one shade lighter on the red. Now I still won't know for sure without actual keycap samples so the colors can still change, but I hope this helps for the last few days of the drop.
Update 5/2/18:
Here are the actual keycap samples!
Update 8/11/18:
Hey everyone, while you are waiting for your keycaps, here are samples of the keycaps with legends taken with a different phone. This is currently as close as I can get to capturing the actual colors after playing with the camera settings for a bit.
I thought GMK Sublegends like Cyrillic for example were pad printed. Did they get new molds for doubleshots sublegends? Sorry for asking, just want to make sure. If this is true then I’m going to have to buy more alphas Sets. This Set is just great!
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1959/0313/products/Guardian-of-the-East-keycap-Red-02_1080x.jpg?v=1493276494
It would be amazing to have a consistent full F row! 4 yellow on red / 4 yellow on greyish / 4 yellow on red Novelties! ;)
If not, thats ok, was just being hopeful!
EDIT: Nevermind, they don't.
Thank you for your quick response!
I really want this to succeed as well. GMK Laser and Samurai was pretty much the two sets I had my mind set on