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 thickness is about 1.25mm. Considerably thicker than ABS, but from what I read, not really thick compared to some other PBT keycaps (1.5mm).
No extra keycaps. There's exactly enough for a 104 key keyboard. No stepped caps lock, no media keys.
On some of the keys I can feel the legends. For example, I can't feel it on A and D, but I can feel it on the S. Doesn't really bother me.
I've replaced R3 of my QuickFire Stealth (brown), with 40A-R o-rings. The sound is subtly different, Not sure if I can feel a difference. I do miss the front printed caps, so I may keep the original caps on this keyboard and use these on a bare WASD V2 87 I'm thinking of buying. Not that I need another keyboard...