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
Thanks to everyone that participated in the drop! I was pretty blown away by the number of participants in both the Planck kit and keycap drops - this drop exceeded the number of Plancks that I've ever sold through the store (about 2200).
The data you see here and in the spreadsheet below is directly from Massdrop, and represents the number of options that people selected - occasionally a couple orders won't go through because of payment failure (I think MD just sent out an email about ordering 2296 kits).
Raw data for the charts here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ov-Ak4FBvvyyJeMXbKijT10dNoRg61pzPeQUTjHOqLs/edit?usp=sharing