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
Couple of suggestions - Silhouettes of military planes set (I think these would look great as a yellow silhouette on a grey or blue background) - F-22 Raptor - A-10 Warthog (extra points for BBBBRRRRTTTTT) - Apache Helicopter - V-22 Osprey - C-130 Gunship - C-5 Cargo - U-2 - SR-71 - P-51 Mustang - PBY Cat (please please please)
- Silhouettes of Civilian Passenger Planes Through History / Misc - Wright Flyer - Spruce Goose - Dehavilland Beaver - Dehavilland Comit - Boeing 747 - Airbus something something - Antonov 225 - Icon A5 - Cessna Planes - Silhouettes of space faring vehicles - Sputnik - Mercury, Gemini, Apollo - Skylab - Hubble - Shuttle
NOTE: I recognize my obvious American take in this, these are just things I’m familiar with and again they’re just suggestions.
- Prop and Wings