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
- Different Anodizing dye color was used for production than for the pictures above (Dye is expensive and they would have had to mix the dye themselves. If the factory got lazy, they probably just went with the straight blue dye and did not mix in any of the violet dye.)
- They didn't leave the parts in the dye bath long enough (Again,, probably to finish production faster they left parts in for 20min rather than the 40+min needed to get deep colors).
My major regret here is that they likely did put the parts in a sealer bath so its not like I can go and get some anodizing dye and fix it to be the color shown in the pictures. I think the only option now is to use some Dupli-Color EMC204007 Purple Metal Cast Anodized Color to give it the right tint.