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 know that if I were new to the mech world hotswap ability would be an option I’d look for first, because I’d need to experience as many different types of switches and not through a switch tester. Fully typing with the switch will help me to really determine what I’d like. Although, now I have more than one fave so with hotswaps I can combine all my favorite switches into one keyboard. Still, I can’t wait for your review. Btw I bought my friend’s Varmilo pink Sakura line which was before the panda line. I ended up swapping out the keycaps since I found the images to look borderline 8 bit graphic. I ended up putting my Sa Carbon on this pink keyboard and I was shocked how much it looked better than the stock keycaps.