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
I'm not here to complain, just here to help future buyers consider what they're getting. Yes this is a group buy so you don't always have the option of "returning it to the store". If you've done your homework, I would agree with what you've read that this is an entry level package. This is my second Tada68, and now I'm feeling that the first one I bought with the plastic case was a better deal - cause I wasn't hyped up for a premium aluminum case that didn't deliver.
The damage is subtle, but it's on the user-facing surface, so I can be reminded of its imperfection.