Hello everyone,
I have quite a few updates for you today:
1. BASE
• Basekit has been completely reworked to support as many layouts as possible straight out the base kit.
• Since over 80% of the 186 people who filled out the IC FORM wanted this to be R5... Bottom Row is now R5
• ذ letter has been correctly aligned / lowered to match every other in the numrow
• 1.5u R5 Super has been added, to support Mac users
• 1u R5 Alt has been added, to support Mac users
• R5 1u Meta Key has been added, which is intended to be used as a R5 Fn or any other generic R5 1u key.
• 2c Spacebar has been added
• 2.25c Spacebar has been added
• 2.75c Spacebar has been added
• Alice B is now in Basekit
• Accent Esc is now in Basekit
• Accent ANSI is now in Basekit
• Accent ISO Enter is now in Basekit
• Accent Arrows are now in Basekit
• Accent Numpad Enter is now in Basekit
• Esc and Accent Esc don't have ذ letter anymore. This just didn't fully make sense, since you don't see Esc with `~ sublegends pretty much ever, let alone Esc with ろ sublegends in hiragana kits, for example.
2. SPACEBARS
• There is a dedicated Spacebar kit now. Together, Base- and Spacebar Kits support:
• Alice and other ergo layouts in both 2.25–1, 2.75 and 2–1.25, 2.75 configurations
• Accent options for 6.25u, 7u and larger Alice bars
• Standard split 6.25u space configurations: 2.75–1.25–2.25 and 2.25–1.25–2.75
• Standard split 7u space configuration: 3–1–3
• Boards that use 6u centered-stem space
• Boards that use 3u space
3. 40S
• There is a dedicated 40s Kit now, which supports layouts like:
• 4x12 Planck default & community layouts
• 5x12 Preonic default & community layouts
• Standard 12u staggered layouts
• Standard 13u staggered layouts
• Minivan and derivatives
• UT47.2, Whimsy and derivatives
3. GREEK ADDON
Even if that is not obvious, this kit changed the most. With this kit, I want to fix many issues that have been in Cherry / GMK Greek kits for a long time
• ΅ sublegend on ς key. ς isn't a separate letter; it's just a word-final version of Σσ. So its shifted position is used for a combined dyalitika-tonos accent character. You often don't see this character on sets with Greek sublegends because some of them are limited to alphas only, or base layer only. But since I have ;: and ΄¨ as base+shift sublegends, it would make sense to include ς΅ as well.
• ς lowercase letter. Because it really is, unlike the rest of the letters.
• Ψ letter fix. All known Kits are using Ψ and Θ shapes, which are really off. Cherry's Ψ has two 'arcs' instead of one (it's like U|U instead of ╰|╯).
How it is:
/ How it should be:
• Θ letter fix. For the Θ, the line in the middle isn't supposed to touch the inner edge of the circle. This, on doubleshot sets, might be done that way because of the limitations that doubleshot injection has. But since my set uses UV print, I can do it right here.
How it is:
/ How it should be:
• Γ letter fix. Γ and E should be about the same width; as well as Ρ and the top half of Β.
How it is:
/ How it should be:
• X letter fix. All known Kits are using the Cherry Latin X legend instead of having a proper Greek X that matches the other Greek legends in width.
How it is:
/ How it should be:
• Λ and Δ letter fixes. Λ and Δ should be the same width compared to A. In Greek, Α, Λ and Δ use the same base shape (Λ) and then just differ in the placement of the horizontal stroke (or lack thereof). So those three glyphs should have the same proportions for the triangle part.
How it is:
/ How it should be:
• Ω letter fix. In this second case, too, you can tell this was maybe done because of the limitations that doubleshot injection has. But in this set, I can be more flexible and do it properly
How it is:
/ How it should be:
I really think I, with the awesome help of konstantin and Manzel, was able to bring all the kits to the next level.
4. QUESTION ABOUT MODSAnd now, one more important thing:
I really wanted to make this set Icon mods, as all OG DE and UK Cherry boards did come with those.
But I can find a literal ton of feedback in the IC FORM like this:
So I would be open to run this in Icon+Text mods if the demand is high enough or 'more people' want it.
I made a specific
IC FORM just for that.
Please be so kind and decide there, if you want this to be Icon mods or Icon+Text mods.
Much appreciated.
