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 searched all over the place but I cannot find a set/combination that is both shine through and look like the factory set. Therefore I consulted a friend in the keycaps studio and he said making such a set is possible. The ideal result would be a shine through set which includes all the keys WhiteFox has, including the big Enter and the square/triangle/circle keys, and retains all the keys' height and fonts.
Now I'm posting to see how many of you are interested. If enough people are, we can create a drop. (I'm not sure how exactly polling/dropping works, but I assume this is a good place to post this.) Please reply with any question you have, and also reply if you are interested. As for whether or not my friend's studio is solid, I've attached a few pictures of their work.