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 received my order on the 13th of November and contacted support the same day. I could tell something was wrong with my batch of the black Vortex Backlit Doubleshot PBT Keycaps after 15 minutes of use. I contacted support on the same day and have not heard back from them.
Like what @BrainFlush, @Tibincrunch, and many others (from old comments) have said. These keycaps are inconsistent and have quality issues.
The keys differ in quality and in height. Some keys sit lower and some sit higher, this creates a very uncomfortable and awkward feeling when using these keys. Some of the injections in these keycaps are bad, that’s why some of my keys don’t light up properly. Some of my keys will fall out during use because of the poor Cherry MX mold.
I have keys fall off during gaming and from regular typing. I wish I could show you have many times the my keys came out during gaming. But, I can’t record while playing, so I tried to recreate those situations in the videos.
Here are videos that shows how easily the keycaps can fall off. Video 1:
Video 2:
I already contacted Massdrop on the day (Nov 13) that I received the keycaps. Still waiting for Massdrop to respond.
Once in, they are fully secure and actually a little too tight for my liking.
The unevenness can also be explained by having the keys actually in.
This is a good set, at least in my experience. They are nice and thick and feel great, coming for stock corsair K95 keycaps.
Backlighting is not the best as the doubleshot method leaves little dark bumps on the underside of the keycap that blocks light. On some keys, it's very noticeable.
For the number row, I had to swap back to the corsair keys because I simply could not see the numbers at all. This is the same with any key that has a legend on the bottom half of the cap.
Which colour set did you buy? I’m glad you don’t have any issues with your keycaps. But if you want my shitty vortex keycaps let me know! I’ll send them to you! Just pay for shipping :D