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 agree that there's plenty of off the shelf stuff in the full-size arena, including nice basic mechanical computing boards and then all of the mech gaming boards, but so little in the high end enthusiast space. I'd pay dearly for a full-size board with the styling of the most recent Mito laser ALT drop, and I know there must be plenty of others needing something to fill this void so they don't have to disrupt their workflow efficiency just to appease their keyboard addiction. So the question is will we ever see a full size board drop with this kind of build, look and features that were available in the CTRL and ALT? Call it the NUM or whatever you want and I'll buy it. Who else?