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
EDIT: Here's a pic of what shine looks like. Mind you this is an extreme scenario and also the caps of this set are double shot, unlike the one shown, so the alphas will never fade.
The caps you linked have extremely bad quality unlike anything I've ever seen from Signature Plastics'. I have been using a DSA set daily, since 2014, and it's yet to present any signs of wear. Like, at all.
But some users definitely report a bit of shine, so it's something that could potentially happen depending on how you use the keyset and its mileage - natural skin oils and grease play a huge factor here and eating while using the keyboard also decreases the texture of the caps as time goes by. I'd say that ABS sets can last for a very long time and will maintain its textures and shape preserved for yeas if you take good care of it - by using it like a normal person would.
Just don't Doritos on your keyboards and you will be fine!