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'd like to announce that the DSA LightCycle FULL keycap set is now available for pre-order. With all the feedback to expand the set to a full keyboard I spent a lot of time working with the community to do just that.
The full set offers compatibility for a wide range of layouts in both mx and alps stems. The set is broken up into a base tkl set, numpad, and compatibility/international. This is a rare opportunity to get a full alps set with international support.
LightCycle sports Tron themed novelties and colors in double shot DSA profile. The homing keys are the center bump variety.
This set can be pre-ordered over here https://thevankeyboards.com/products/lightcycle-keycap-set
Evan, TheVan Keyboards