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
We’ve been super excited about how the Varmilo VA68M has been recognized and received in the Mech Keys community.
We have been working on bringing the next batch of Varmilo VA68M in more colorful varieties, switches will be available in Cherry (Black, Brown, Blue and Red), as well as Gateron (in all).
We would like your help to us finding the 3 new colors: https://www.massdrop.com/vote/Varmilo-VA68M-in-COLORS2
And here are some of the previews for the new color options! I'm having quite a difficult time choosing myself o: What are your favorites?