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
- Four case colors (black, silver, navy, and orange)
- Three Kailh PG1350 switch types (linear, tactile, and clicky)
- Three assembly options! (keeping it simple the first time)
- Clicky + Navy
- Linear + Silver
- Tactile + Black
We're still finalising the keycap options and some other details (carrying sleeve, usb cable choice). All of this will eventually be on the OLKB store as well (probably not assembly), but I don't have a timeframe setup yet!If you haven't seen the video about it, check it out!