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
The pictures that they have for this drop are actually on the full size CODE keyboard.
The "Control" legend is too long for the whole word to be lit up; they should have used "Ctrl" to match with "Win", "Alt" and "Fn".
The keys with two legends only light up the upper legend (unless you have two leds on each switch). The original CODE keys solve that problem nicely by putting the two legends next to each other.
The tenkey plus and return keys have their legends vertically centered so they aren't backlit at all. I don't think there is any keyboard that could light them up so it makes no sense to put them there.
If they solve these things, I would buy them directly, but for now, I might go for backlighting around the caps only.