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
First impressions? This is a very well built board. The combination of the amazing keycaps, MX Clear switches, the rock solid stabilizers and the overall build makes this such an awesome board to use.
The keys are very easy to type on, and the slightly wider spacing works for me really well as I'm pretty bad at fat fingering keys and I haven't had that yet on this board.
Issues? THERE IS NO NUMLOCK LED. There is a Capslock LED, but no numlock. This is frustrating because the whole premise of the board is that you switch between numpad/functions with the Numlock, but you never know which mode you are on! Seems like a stupid oversight.
Second is just an issue with my board, the ' symbol won't register on first press and double actuates on the second... So you can't write a single apostrophe without writing 2 and removing the second one. But I can live with it.
But these are small quips, overall I love this board and would probably buy a second one if the drop comes around again. Either that or the Racer variant...