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
- Firstly, I have asked https://mykeyboard.eu/ and they said that they will have a couple of Varmilo keyboards by the end of this month. I don't know for the ISO-DE layout but if they willl have ISO-FR keyboard I'm totally sure an ISO-DE keyboard is on the road too (contact them). If not, probably https://www.candykeys.com/ will carry them ;)
- Secondly, http://shop.caps-unlocked.com/ It's a group buy. You will have more customisation but wait a lot
- Lastly, you can order directly from Varmilo. You just need to contact the Varmilo representative https://www.reddit.com/user/JOWQH or by sending them an email zhh19@zhihaihe.cn
It would be interesting to take a look on her different post on reddit and geekhack like this one https://geekhack.org/index.php?board=192.0 or this one too https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=87937.0
When one of my friends have ordered a custom keyboard from Varmilo, the commercial representative give him this http://imgur.com/lR6zKLT
EDIT : Mykeyboard.eu and Candykeys will sell the IKBC MF87 RGB