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
It's Christos from the Planfab team. We just finished the creation of our first keycap for cherry switches and we wanted to share our excitement with the community!!
At last it is for sale:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/574561792/demon-artisan-keycap-for-cherry-switches?ref=shop_home_feat_3
It is 3d modelled, 3d printed and hand painted by us.
We plan to produce it in metal (Bronze and Silver) as well, we think that it will be really impressive!
Comments and feedback is welcome and appreciated.
Cheers
The Planfab team