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
This drop starts Thursday, June 28 and will run until Saturday, June 30 (10:00 p.m. PT), and will be structured similarly to the last keycap re-cap drop. After that, our warehouse will work on gathering all the keycaps and get everyone’s orders shipped out. There will be no wait for production since these are made already.
The drop will start with a 2 kit limit per user. As the drop progresses, we’ll open up the ordering quantities more and more. The idea is to let everyone have a shot at getting the sets they need. See the list below for what’s available. These kits go fast and certain quantities are low so you best act quickly.
Godspeed.
AVAILABLE OPTIONS · Massdrop x T0mb3ry SA Carbon Custom Keycap Set - Most kits including base alphas available · Massdrop x Zambumon GMK Nautilus Custom Keycap Set - Very limited quantities of most kits including base alphas available · Massdrop x MiTo XDA Godspeed Custom Keycap Set - Most kits including base alphas available in limited quantities · Overcast DSA Custom Keycap Set - Limited ISO / UK kits available · Godspeed Custom SA Keycap Set - Limited novelties and lab kits · Dasher & Dancer SA Custom Keycap Set - Limited ISO kits and OS Mods · Planck Keycap Set - Various blank kits available
Check out what’s available and let us know what you’re looking forward to most.