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
I've been using MS 4000 keyboard for years and love everything about it except for not being a mechanical keyboard.
Recently I've decided to use my "other" keyboard (which is a cherry brown HPE-87 tkl) as a daily driver, and see how it goes. It was ok, but my wrists hurt, mainly due to the fact that I'm used to type on a big, split keyboard, as is the MS 4000, but also due to the fact that I set up MS4k with the back tilt, that is using the provided plastic add on to lift the front of the keyboard to a higher point than the back, so my wrists are placed more naturally.
So I switched back to the MS keyboard, to discover, to my amazement, that I cannot use it...because mechanical keys are way way way better. So...I went back to the HPE, but used a couple of foam cushions from my wristwatch delivery to raise the front edge and to provide a wristpad for the keyboard. This is working, kinda, but keyboard's weight has deformed the cushions, and they are no longer support it properly...also they're not super friendly to my skin on the wrists.
Hence, please advise. Is there any off the shelf products that can help solving the problem?
Thanks.