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
1) This is actually where I would have expected something like this to be priced. A lot of people seem shocked by the price but an aluminum TKL case by itself is usually priced around $100-110 and a backlit TKL is usually $110-130.
2) PBT is not used because PBT backlit keycaps are a relatively new thing that I've only seen coming from Vortex. Backlit keys have always been ABS. PBT caps that don't require double injection are more widely available because they are easier to manufacture so comparing it to the cheaper keyboards that have laser engraved PBT caps is a moot point.
Not a keyboard I'm personally buying but not egregiously priced as some of the posters have made it seem.
the brand is already as low profile as they go and still you go out of your way to bash it even more? like seriously?
why not go back to writing the 1000th review for ergodox and why it's awesome niche and why everyone should get it?
There's a reason the keyboards you listed have mass appeal. I personally don't own any of the keyboards you listed but I'll take any of them over a Deck. It's like saying "Oh the Camry is so practical but everyone has one so I'll be different and stick with my expensive Geo Metro" (sorry, best analogy I can come up with for using an ugly but expensive product).