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
Not really a fan of keyboards that light up, but I am starting to change my mind after seeing some really awesome pictures on here! I have the HHKB Pro 2 Type-S.. Not pictured is the Realforce 87UB 55g Uniform. I tried swapping the domes so that I could have a 55g Type-S, but for some reason it was too mushy. And the stock domes (supposedly 45g) was a lot snappier than the one inside the Realforce. It's a very special keyboard even though it may not look it visually. In fact that's why I love all the topre keyboards- that you have to type on it to really know.