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
All was fine and dandy until I put the keys back on, I noticed that some keycaps were taller than others (4, 6, F3 and F7 are most noticeable in the pic) I gave all the keys a bit more of a push down and that seems to have helped a bit, but it's still noticeable.
Something I found really weird is that when I switched the keycaps around to see if it was the switches or the caps themselves that were causing the problem they seemed to level just fine.
Does anybody else have this issue? Would a new set of keycaps fix it or is it the switches themselves? Why wasn't this an issue until I took the caps out and put them back in?
Regards,
Toast25