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
a little glimpse of a hint about the timeframe. Puting it this way, should i buy another keyboard, if i would be broke for the next 4 weeks then :)
sounds like the perfect christmas present for myself.
I'll update you as soon as I've a better answer for you.
By the way guys jump in and vote if this is something you all might be interested in seeing here on Massdrop for the Realforce 87U keyboards and thanks https://www.massdrop.com/vote/RealForce-87U-Topre-Aluminum-Case
Edit: https://www.massdrop.com/buy/topre-realforce-87u
Looks like I missed the 87UB 55g. Will keep my eyes peeled in case anyone drops out.