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
- $2015
Keycaps: HHKB Official White Keycaps - $78 HHKB Official Coloured ESC / Enter set - $31 Think Different (Whole set) - $150 Granite (Whole set) - $200 Vortex PBT Double shot Backlit - $30 Vortex PBT Double shot 60% set - $50 Some random WASD keycaps - $??? Ignored, not much GeekKeys Iron Man - $45 Massdrop Pumpkin - $9 SA Lambda - $8
- $601
Others: 360 * Gateron Switches - $120 360 * Custom Springs - $22 80 * Zealios Purple 78g (R2) - $78 Countless Cherry MX Switches -$??? at least 200 Several mounting plates - $around 80 Some Lub from Elite Keyboard - $15 Several Cases - $??? at least 200
- $715
Total: $3331
(I should have buy a new computer...)