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
The Leopold FC660M, technically more like a 68%, but good https://mechanicalkeyboards.com/shop/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1497
Ducky Mini, a little ha5rder to come by, but great boards https://mechanicalkeyboards.com/shop/index.php?l=product_detail&p=950 (out of stock through this site, but can usually find them if you hunt)
Plus there are a lot of 60% DIY options out there that will cost you a lot less.