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
Is it possible to have each of the colors of keycap shown on a keyboard with LED's like the purple ones are in the photo? It looks like you can see the colors reflecting back down from white LED's and I'd be interested in how each color looks.
Maybe the Alt through Ctrl keys replaced with one of each color on the same keyboard used in the current photos - that would be hugely appreciated!
Hope this is what you were looking for :)
They are all being reflected by the doubleshot.
Alex gets to do all the fun/cool stuff.
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