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
What exactly makes this board worth 200$? Save your money and spend it on one of the many boards that cost half the price with better specs and more customization options. WASD has very cool ABS keycap printing options, but that's about it. Not sure why so many people buy their boards.
They are solid, well built boards made with grade A materials (ABS isn't bad itself, it's that a lot of companies use thin, shitty ABS, WASD doesn't). I agree there are a lot of cheaper options, but WASD delivers for the price.
Zeal switches, whether you like them or not, are expensive, no way around that, but WASD offers a lot of options without them. Mine doesn't have them, and it wasn't $200.
As for 60%, just go for a poker. If you want a poker with an alum case, get the poker 3.
Of course this is just the cheap-but-quality, surface level, pre-built stuff. There's a whole world of kits and korean boards which will be all around higher quality and cooler looking, but the prices get insane.