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
Way better than the graphs that we are seeing from MassDrop, let me tell you. If @dvorcol was to create a graph just based on this comment, it would be the most tremendous, amazing graph. Really the best graphs people.
There doesn't seem to be any other way to interperate the above. Then for a single 108 key Ergo Pro Keyset it should cost over $10,000.
Is this correct? As of writing this reply the price of one gram of gold is $43.03 [1] and the average weight of a standard OEM profile TaiHao doubleshot keycap is about ~1.2g[2]. Given these numbers and the above graph it would seem that MiTo keycaps (on average) out price gold by weight.
[1] https://goldprice.org/ [2] Weights taken from 30 semi-random keycaps taken from a grab bag with equal distributions on each row type.
Just curious, do you find the meaning more clear on Massdrop's spreadsheet?
[Edit: just looked at your Danger Zone drop and saw "pack" is indeed used instead of "kit", while the whole thing is still called a "set". Is "pack" a military term in keeping with that set's theme?]
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