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
PBT being higher quality is subjective, anyways. Sure it doesn't get the shine of ABS but it also can't be made in the same vibrant colors as ABS, which may be someone's idea of "quality." Not everyone likes the PBT textured feel, as well.
The only thing this tells us about PBT and ABS is that PBD is harder. Hardness is 1 of many qualities that describe a material.
Pretend you have 2 keycap sets made out of different metals, just as PBT and ABS are both plastics. One set is made of stainless steel and one is made out of cast iron. The stainless steel keycaps would degrade quicker, due to daily use, than the cast iron set because it is a softer metal. does that mean that stainless steel is of less quality and is an inferior material to cast iron? No, it just means it has different properties, one of them being hardness. Put them in a salt bath and you have a different story.
Here is one example. This wasn't the very original. Miami is quite popular and many spin-off sets and redo's have been done. I believe the original was done by SP and this one is done by MAXKEY.