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 have keys from Carbon, PuLse, ToXic, Deep Space, Jukebox, 1976, Troubled Minds, Danger Zone and a few more. None of them are anywhere near full sets, mind you, but they are a nice taste of the colors and little bits of the history. Personally, I like really wild colors and symbols so I've had a lot of fun experimenting. I've also gotten to setup boards in most popular profiles for pretty cheap. It is also pretty easy to put together blank sets and supplement sets you have already.