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've tried, I really have, but my Pok3r sits on the shelf, lonely and unused (I really should eBay or r/mechmarket it). My brain is wired for dedicated arrows, even though my fingers can remember three- and four-key combos for all sorts of weird things (hello Paste Special in Office, and the Thesaurus, my old friends).
I even had to give in to reality and change my earlybird Model F order - F77's only, the F62, I can't see it working for me. YMMV.
The Mercury Rocketeer case and keyset, they're beautiful, but not for me, I'm afraid. Best of luck, they're great!