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
Also, Dye-Sub caps have held up very well.
This isn't a dig on you. It's just in reference to your statement that "You'd have to put a grinder against any dye-sub keycap to get any wearing on it." For gamers, commonly used keys can have significant visible wear after only a few months.
You took my statement way too seriously. Of course, there will be some micro wearing on the keycap, but that's not what I'm referring to, and it is the last thing to happen, it's the dye-subbed legends that I'm referring on. The legends won't wear out and fade like the usual regular cheap stuff you see on most keyboards. Even if they did wear out, the legends will still be clearly visible, not faded. You should look into dye-sub seeing you don't know much about it than talking over your head. There are old vintage keyboards with dye-sub legends that are still crisp today as the day they've been produced. Even gamers with dye-subbed keycaps will have a slim chance to see their legends fade on their commonly used keys.
I guess you don't own a dye-subbed pbt set yet; you should invest in one and see for yourself if you haven't already. An alternative is Doubleshot keycaps to consider.