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'm looking to get my first mechanical keyboard and hoping you all could help point me toward a good entry level rig. I'm a desk diver, so this is just general use - lots of email, Slack, etc.
The wireless Logitech I had been using is driving me nuts with lag and missed key strokes, so I'm going full Office Space on it. I have been contemplating dipping my toes in to the world of mechanical keyboards and figure this is as good a reason as any. I also use my num pad quite a bit, so seems I am going to need to get a separate piece for that?
Thanks in advance for any guidance and advice you may have to offer!