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
If you want scooped homing keys, you could post a wanted ad on reddit.com/r/mechmarket Anyone who bought the Canvas Haus kit & is not using Betas + the alternate layout you are using should be willing to sell you the two scooped homing keys you are looking for at a very reasonable price.
The XDA Canvas keys have not shipped yet, but probably will before the end of 2017. You can see that drop here: https://www.massdrop.com/buy/massdrop-x-mito-canvas-xda-custom-keycap-set
Alternatively, the scooped homing keys in XDA Godspeed's Probe Dishes kit are very similar, if not the exact same beige. The beige color detail was not decided by the end of the drop. So that is another group of people you could include in your ad if you have no luck with just the Canvas group. You can see that drop here: https://www.massdrop.com/buy/massdrop-x-mito-xda-godspeed-custom-keycap-set
TLDR: 1) All letter keys are the same, so any layout is possible (F & J are not homing). 2) All keys labeled CONVEX really are CONVEX, they are not mislabeled. 3) MD might add homing F & J to the set as a bonus, but no promises.