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 KaminKev wasn't saying they offer custom LEDs. He was saying you could buy a POK3R and put in your own LEDs by yourself.
That people who wish to wait until late October may preorder Pok3rs with factory-installed LEDs that don't require customization or void warranties, but do include LED-related enhancements by Vortex, etc.
Also, KK's original post was phrased in such an open-ended way that it easily could be construed by readers as recommending Mechanical Keyboards as a customizing LED service. I didn't believe that that unintended inference was correct. I merely asked a question that (tactfully, I'd hoped) pointed out the fallacy of a harmless straw man.
If people want to add their own LEDs, that's their business. But to pose the option as a seeming rebuttal to useful information about forthcoming Pok3r options is unnecessarily confusing. Here's how I would have put it: "One alternative to buying a Pok3r with preinstalled LEDs is to install them yourself. You can buy the LEDs here [insert link to specific page]."
You could also easily go to Mechanical Keyboards and look it up yourself and see that it does, indeed, exist. I don't really understand why you're making such a thing out of this...
https://mechanicalkeyboards.com/shop/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1419
EDIT: Looks like the link won't go through (Massdrop's comment box automatically truncates the actual part of the items ID.).
Did you wonder (as I did) whether the low price might have been a mistake?
If you go on Mech. Keyboards site, you will see the white backlit ones on their Vortex Keyboards product page.