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 i get alphas, noire, numpad, UK, and minibars I still need one more R3 1.5u key (noire has 4) to entirely cover the bottom row. Is there any other option that fully covers this board or do I have to get the missing key from elsewhere?
If turquoise Modifiers work for you, then @MiTo's Hobbyist solution is best. But if you're after black Modifiers, here are some other ideas: * Use one of Noire's R3 1.25u keycaps in place of the fifth 1.5u (also with 0.125u gaps). * Get the fifth 1.5u in black from Blanks. * If some turquoise is OK, the Mac kit has four R3 1.5u keycaps - might compliment the turquoise ISO Enter.
Of course 100% correct legends aren't possible, but Norde has three more than UK: 6, 8, and 9.
Hope you find something that works for you!
I also use Microsoft layout editor so I don't have to mess with non matching legends.