Love it, and especially love the Gorton. Please add R3 PgUp, R4 PgDn to base for 65% support, and you've got yourself a buyer.
Do you know if SP has DCS molds for 3c and 1c spacekeys? Cause those would be a nice addition to the spacebars kit.
Edit: Somehow I missed the whole second page of this thread.
Consider replacing UK ISO with basic terminal ISO. It reduces the amount of caps used for ISO support from 8 to 4 and you're still covering the layout fine.
I don't really see the point of UK ISO when a very small portion of ISO users (which are already a minority) will make actual use of the regional caps.
Second this, there are more than 1 ISO layouts, terminal ISO is the cheapest for all of us ISO users.
+1 to this. But even if ISO-UK stays, that's totally fine too — UK users get to have their keys, and it's probably not going to affect the price of the kit by much. However...
I have also tweaked the base kit slightly, adding in terminal ISO support (in addition to UK ISO currently), a 1.5u R2 Delete (in addition to the backspace) and a R1 1u delete that has colored legends, for ISO boards that have split backspace.
... This is not so fine. These changes are pretty much unnecessary. You don't need both ISO-UK
and terminal ISO — it's either one or the other; having both is redundant.
As for R2 1.5u Delete, does anyone even use that (unless they're forced to)? I don't think so, but maybe I'm wrong. Maybe it's a thing with this colorway? My GMK set has it, and I hate it.
Anyway, what I
am sure is that a vanishingly small number of people use split Backspace together with ISO Enter. However, R1 1u Delete with a colored legend has another use case, which is HHKB layouts with Delete above 1.5u Backspace, so for that reason, you should actually keep that key.
In summary, if I were you, I would do the following:
- Drop either ISO-UK or terminal ISO keys — you definitely don't need both.
- Drop the R2 1.5u Delete key.
- If you want to add some extra keys to base, make it be some useful ones, and add R3 PgUp, R4 PgDn and, optionally (and only if you're not going to run a separate Mac kit), 1.5u Supers and a second 1u Alt.
- Please keep the shebang keys, at least the 1u ones: for me, those are a key part of what makes SolDark keysets — SolDark keysets. As for the 1.25u ones, they do look kinda odd, so maybe replace those with Super.
Edit 2: wording, a few extra clarifications