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
Production of the plates is moving along much slower than anticipated due to many units not meeting their quality control standards. As a result, we’re looking at an approximately 1 week delay in the entire process.
The factory is currently estimating the units to be completed in the last week of June and first week of July with all kits promised en route to us by July 5th.
We will start fulfilling the drop as soon as units hit our warehouse, so people should start getting tracking on their order by the first week of July, if not sooner.
On a serious note, MD really needs to be more in touch and communicate with it's community. Even if you send out an email or post saying "week #16, 75% of stock is accounted for on plates", so we actually know you're trying, that'd be something. Right now, though, I have no idea and wish I could just cancel the order and get a refund. Does it take financial protest to get some sort of information or at least create some accountability? This is the second time MD or their partners has fallen on their face with the Planck. Who's actual fault is it?