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 is a little off topic but mouse and keyboard always go hand in hand, don't they? If you are interested in having cool keyboards, you may be as well excited about cool mouses. I've been searching for a mouse that satisfies me the way customized mechanical keyboards do. But I could not find anything that even come close to what I want. Generally there are gaming mouses which are said to be accurate, sensitive, blah blah. Those I don't need, just like I never need plastic gaming keyboards from Corsair, Razer, Logitech, and the likes. I need aluminum cases, better tactile switches, good build quality and full programmability. For mouses, I need something that looks cool, wireless, durable, excellent build quality.
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