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
Most flattering photo I could take of it:
Some possible improvements:
1) The fog effect is only quite noticeable with a light underneath it, and even then, it looks sparse, unlike in the description page. With the naked eye, you'll have to look closely to see the mist. It somehow looks better photographed, so expect very thin and wispy mists with the real thing. A possible improvement would be a variation in mist thickness/texture. A little thicker here, and little bit thinner there. Invokes a sense of mystery. Will definitely look more interesting.
2) In the first picture, the lower left side of the keycap, where the wood juts out of the white resin jarringly. Will be better if some of that thick fog covering the trees can be applied there to cover the abrupt manner in which the wood juts out there. Kinda spoils the look, looking as if the jagged rocks are jutting out of a lake of milk instead of a bed of fog. The empty white resin parts are actually where light will be able to shine through with a backlight, but they could be made more interesting. As is, these parts look a little empty, and jarring.
Otherwise, I'm rather liking mine. Haven't had a chance to stick it on a back-lit MX keyboard (that's a Logitech G Pro in the background with Romer-G switches.. hey it's not bad!), but I may update with more pictures when I can.