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: been using it every week to clean my boards and I have 3 boards and 3 keysets to remove every week and the puller is still good. haven't broken or detached itself from the handle yet. just to let you know :D
I've outright abused one of them -- Took a piece of steel the width of a keycap, placed it through the wire loop and *tried* to break the puller by pulling on it. I don't know exactly how much force I applied, but I was pulling as hard as I could, and I'm a big dude...
I've been using the new ones regularly for just over two months - including removing Signature Plastic Alps keycaps from Matias switches, which utterly destroyed one of the earlier revision puller I had.
The new design has, for me, been completely solid.