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
That shift issue would drive me nuts though, good luck.
Edit: Actually my right shift is also the wrong profile. Damn.
This is not unethical business practice. What happened here was a manufacturing mistake and both the seller and the manufacturer are following the protocol procedures to fix it, and it's being fixed.
Replacements will be made and sent out to everyone, every recent group buy had some issues and unfortunately it happened here as well.
Right now I ask for your patience and I guarantee that everything is being fixed. And as a designer, I'm doing my best to prevent this from happening in the future projects that I contribute to create.
This is a community effort and for being awesome and supportive for so long you deserve nothing but the ultimate experience and excellent products, and this is what you'll get.
If Signature Plastics has already been contacted, and replacement keys are being made for EVERY set that was produced, why ask for customers to submit tickets, and why not proactively contact customers?
Mistakes do happen, I'm not blaming you as the designer (the design is fantastic), or Signature Plastics as the manufacturer. It seems that Massdrop has failed to handle the situation in a timely and appropriate manner.
I would be glad to submit a support ticket but I can't even do it because I am still waiting for my package to be shipped all the way through Europe to reach Asia! Jeez.
I also don't see why you wouldn't blame the manufacturer, when this is their mistake entirely.