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
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This is now the best keyboard I have ever used. It is not silent, but it is very quiet and friendly sounding. My typing speed has gone up about ten words a minute as well. I was looking for another one for at home but they were always over $150. I finally got a great deal on an eBay resold Massdrop keyboard instead, that had the same key configuration, but with brown cherry mx key switches. I don't like those quite as well but the letters on the keys of that keyboard light up and I like that a lot since that keyboard sits on a shadowed shelf in a dimly lit room .
So, this keyboard ultimately led me to Massdrop, and now it is being offered for sale here. I find that oddly satisfying.