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 agree that the imac keyboard is silent and may be preferable to some people, but personally the short key travel distance of the imac keyboard makes my finger hurt after several hours of coding. Again many people here hype about the color/appearance of the keyboard because they already know the more important thing: what kind of switch they like and what layout they prefer.
You can head over to www.reddit.com/r/mechanicalkeyboards or geekhack.org for more information.
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Topre is a VERY subjective switch type and varies person to person on how he or she likes or dislikes it. I personally am somewhere in the middle,i LIKE Topre and i enjoy using them on occasion but i do not prefer them to MX Browns. That said i still intend on buying a Realforce eventually just because the experience is indeed so unique.