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 feel like for the money they really oughta have put in a bit more elbow grease. Invest in an edge sander and spray some poly on those bad boys Mechanicallee!
On a personal level I bought the 4 pack planning on using them for wasd and the profile is difficult to get used to. Will make a good escape key but why sell a set of 4 when they really function best as an individual decorative key?
I agree that it would be easy to clean them up with a little sand paper, but for the money this really should have been done in production.