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
I will start with my two latest arrivals.
Please be sure to include pictures and info about the artist, price if you want.
And you can even post caps you traded for or bought on the secondary market.
Only rule is you have to have recently acquired them.
Here we go! First up is Salvun's KickStarter AMK caps.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/652182444/all-metal-keycap-amk/description
And his new website.
Let's make him famous!
https://www.salvun.com/
I saw his posts on Reddit and sent him a PM.
We talked for a minute and threw some ideas around and I feel like I helped sparked something.
He decided that those of us buying 4 caps would get an aluminum case, and he came through.
I feel like I am carrying Marsellus Wallace's briefcase when I have it in my hands.
As for the dickbutt, I don't know if that's just for me because he said he had something special for me.
But I am pretty sure it is, and for that I am forever grateful. Because I am FKing DBAG!
Thanks Salvun!
Next up and definitely not last. You all know who they are just by seeing their caps.
It's the infamous and notorious JellyKey team!
How I have admired them since I won my first cap raffle, the oh so rare FaceBook Like caps.
I actually won and then asked them to make me one that was an Unlike cap, and they did. You are always in my heart guys. I never forget a friend.
When you see these in person, pictures can't do them justice, granted I don't have a DSLR yet and I am not a photographer or PS wizard. They feel amazing, almost otherworldly.
The space one really exemplifies space, cold, dark, and bleak yet there's a shimmer of life somewhere inside of it.
And the Moon? Come on, that thing is so perfect, mine even has a little darkside in it.
My only regret, not having bought 6 of each so I could just fill an entire section of my keyboard.
Thank you everyone at JK, always a fan!