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
When it comes to Cherry or Cherry MX-styled switches though, also considering that some vendors sell unique switches based off of Cherry's design, what is the appeal to Cherry MX besides the fact that, in bulk, you can find all kinds of different RGB keyboards that sport Cherry?
Yeeaaah. I'm one of those guys who can't find anything notable about Cherry switches besides the fact that you can find them very easily on "pretty" keyboards lol. And well, they're also easy to get your hands on, lights or no lights.