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
Failing that, I would settle for a deep-blue RETURN bar. Unfortunately I appreciate the difference in the RETURN shape means we can never replicate the shape - even the big ones now are L-shape. Are there places where they can make a colour on request per key?
I think the tape cassette controls would also make for great keys!
Just thought I'd ask. (I have a Corsiar STRAFE with the L-shaped RETURN and the awkward side-keys that standard 104's wont fit. Got it before I really understood the finer requirements of the scene.)
Thanks in advance for anyone who knows their stuff. Obviously I've been searching, but I tend to go off on tangents when I discover artisan keycaps and the like!