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'd already set to buy both Yuri and Laser no matter the cost, the fact this comes out under $150 shipped for Cyrillic + icon mods + spacebars + glorious kit is just icing on the cake.
I suspect you have seen black lotus as well? You seem to stay on top of these things, but given your love of purple I just wanted to make sure you have seen it :)
EDIT: of course you have seen black lotus, you are all over that IC thread lol
Definitely in for Yuri and Laser but since I recently went in for like 250 on Miami Dolch too, I think I might have to skip Nautilus. It's incredible too, lovely set and I have nothing but respect for Zambumon but the colour scheme doesn't call to me as much as the others do. I'll still try to get in on it but given the time-line it's not looking likely.
Nautilus only popped to me when Zambumon added the yellow spacebar kit so yeah, the blue on blue does not intrigue me much either. That is the same reason why originally I didn't get into Laser until very recently when I looked again at all the kits. Now there is much more pink/magenta that it suits my preference better. And I'm pinning my hope on a laughing man logo novelty as a special special treat to me.
If you haven't already, I would subscribe to the keyboards community of massdrop, then they will email you a week or so any big keycap set dropping