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
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The duo is back, with Kevin having the time, and the right cables to run his microphone.
It was a pretty low key (haha) week on the community to the kinds of things we normally look for to talk about, but we still make the stretch for the episode.
This week, related topic links are:
- Official Switch Testers (https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/9lmgm3/thought_these_might_be_liked_here_official/)
- Bringing Aristotle Stems to the next level? (https://www.reddit.com/r/mechmarket/comments/9lp4yu/ic_new_production_of_aristotlestyle_click_stems/)
- Dolch.CR (https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/9k7u0h/dolchcr_retro_65_coming_soon/)
- Susuwatari Keyset (https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/9kkfz2/buying_massdrop_x_matt3o_mt3_susuwatari_custom/)
- Singa R2 (https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/9lqxdi/newest_and_favorite_addition_to_my_collection_3/)
Plus our two competitions for the month, for a Idea23 keycap, and our Keebio kit.
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