GreekAs a Greek, the Greek letters seem off. And the lack of ;/: in the "Q" position def kills it for me, I'm sorry.
I think this has been missed, so I'll emphasize it (maybe SomeGreekGuy will confirm) -- the current Greek kit is only 99% the Greek layout. The confusion might be because many Greek keyboards include Qwerty symbols as well.
The letter "Q" doesn't exist in Greek, so the Q key should instead be
; : (semicolon bottom, colon top).
The key to the right of Λ should be
´ ¨ (acute accent bottom, diaresis accent top -- should line up with ' and " on the next key). This is used in combination with vowels to type άέήίόύώ, ϊϋ and even ΐΰ (e.g. for ΐ, by pressing ´ then ¨ then ι).
I think by "seem off", SomeGreekGuy might also mean the font -- are the letters hand drawn? Capital theta needs to have space between the "-" part and the "O" part, it shouldn't touch like a lowercase theta: θ but have a gap as in Θ.
Similarly, the capital psi should be like a U crossed with an I; it shouldn't be like a rounded W with a tail -- one curve, not two: Ψ.
I'm less sure about this, but the omega should probably have less or no vertical "legs": Ω.
Finally, I think the "final sigma" is probably slightly misaligned, as it's actually a lowercase letter. (Uppercase sigma is Σ, lowercase σ is used within words and ς used if it's the last letter of a word: Ὀδυσσεύς = Odysseus.) The "tail" belongs below the line, and the "C" part should be a little smaller than "Ε" or any other capital. I realize this might look slightly odd, but presumably doesn't look any more odd to a Greek than resulting alignment of "_" or "°" keys on other layouts.
Θ Ψ Ω ς https://www.123rf.com/photo_120615365_greek-keyboard-top-view-of-keys-from-a-black-classic-desktop-keyboard-isolated-on-white-full-alphabe.html is the best picture I can find of a Modern Greek only keyboard (as opposed to Ancient Greek, used by classical historians, or a 2000s+-keyboard, which includes English letters too.)
(If this all seems pedantic, bear in mind that even "tiny" errors like an upside-down capital S would be noticeable.)
FrenchI'll also strongly suggest replacing
* M with
* µ on the French layout. In this case, µ isn't a lowercase letter: it's the micro symbol, as in "a hair is about 75µm thick", which could only be capitalized as "75µm THICK", since "75MM" is at best undefined, and at worst might be read as 75mm, 1000× larger,. (Or consider that I can't capitalize "the download runs at 10Mb/s" as "10MB/s", since 10MB/s = 80Mb/s.)
But I don't want either of these kits anyway...
ErgoI'm interested in either the Orth or Ergo kit -- probably the Ergo kit, as it has many more 1U R1 keys, and lots of 1U thumb keys on
my Ergodash (70 keys total).
The current Ergo render shows some duplicates amongst the 1U R1 keys, namely:
- three Alt/Option keys (if that's the wavy line with a dot below and above)
- three Sys keys (diamond with a centre dot)
- three of the ones with three horizontal lines
- two home (swishy up arrow)
- two end (swishy down arrow)
Pairs of icon mod keys are excellent (I can have Alt, Ctrl, Sys on each side, or use them alone for pretty much anything), but three of the same seems a bit excessive, so I think this is five redundant keys.
Personally, I'd prefer:
- two 1U R1 shift keys
- a 1UC R1 space key
- a 1U R1 enter key
- a 1U R1 backspace key
That still leaves the normal four arrows, three arrow pairs (PgUp/Down, Home/End, maybe that's Raise/Lower), four modifier pairs and delete. That gives plenty of flexibility for larger orth, split, or 3D keyboards.
Hopefully this is useful feedback, it's an excellent design, even if on a board with entirely 1U keys I can't make use of the best novelties.
