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
We first want to apologize to everyone about the long delay, Sparkle Loft did not expect such a huge volume in quantities and some unexpected production obstacles were encountered . With multiple delays, our community support and logistics decided it was the best to cancel and refund everyone along with the token of $15 store credit. We totally understand that there are peeps out there wanting to get a reactor artisan on hand; we will work with Sparkle Loft to see how we can speed up the bulk group buy production and bring back the drop when we are fully confident on the fulfillment. Apologies again, as always - we appreciate your interests and support for this drop.
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It's a bit infuriating to have wanted that item, wait very long wait, and then see someone buy it out instantly when you originally fronted the money to even make that production run happen.