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’ve been working with @intelli78 and GMK for the past few weeks to make sure that all of the colors in the Triumph Adler keycap set were precisely the way that they should be. When we started this drop, we had a specific shade of teal for the modifiers that we were working with that looked great on paper and on a screen, unfortunately the plastic sample we ordered before wasn’t a perfect fit.
As a result, we have been intentionally delaying the start of the production process on the modifiers per @intelli78’s request. This is a very large drop, and the first GMK drop we have ever run, so we want to make sure that absolutely every aspect of this keycap set is correct, both on screen, and in reality.
We spent the past week iterating on different plastic samples with @intelli78, and have finally found the perfect mix of plastics that represents an accurate version of what you see on the listing. Normally, this is a much easier process, since most GMK keycap sets don’t have custom colors.
The consequence of this is that there will be a two week delay with delivery for everyone in this drop. As it currently stands, all of the color chips that match exactly what we will be producing have been sent off to GMK, and from this point forward, everything should be completely on track.
Thanks for your patience and expect an update from us on 5/13 or sooner if something comes up