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
How to replicate: In LED edit mode set every switch in a row to the white color. Next, in a different row that is completely blank set four switches right next to each other to the white color. This incomplete row will have a pinkish white color compared to the bluish white color of the fully on row. For extra fun, set more switches in the incomplete row and watch the white switches change color slightly.
The other issue that you're reporting is color bleed, which is more of a design issue than anything else. There will be slight color shift as you set more LEDs. That's not electrical or firmware, that's optical.
I'll work on an updated firmware and communicate when it is available, thanks again!