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I'm not gonna lie, I would buy the **** out of that set
That website has a
ton of layouts for other languages as well. Quite interesting too.
His idea on the 'improved' US International layout:
This is an enhanced version of the Windows “United States” standard keyboard. It supplements the original layout with a multitude of additional symbols entered using the right-hand Alt key (also known as “Alt Gr”).
This layout is intended for those people who want to have a standard keyboard and still be able to type words like “naďve,” “café,” or “façade,” and occasionally proper names like Nćrřyfjord, Nǃxau ǂToma, or Tȟašúƞke Witkó, or even individual phrases and short texts in foreign languages without switching a layout. It provides support for the vast majority of letters and special symbols used in contemporary languages with Latin-based alphabets, among them:
letters for virtually all contemporary European languages, including accented Serbo-Croatian, Skolt Sami, and Turkish (lack of complete support is only observed for a couple of very exotic letters with double diacritics, which may nevertheless be input using combining diacritical marks);
a multitude of typographical symbols, including a complete set of English, French, and German quotation marks, “em” and “en” dashes, Spanish inverted punctuation marks, copyright and trade mark signs, common currency signs, and others;
Vietnamese letters and letters of the Chinese phonetic system (pīnyīn), with tone diacritics;
special letters used in African languages, and also in languages of indigenous people of Americas and Australia, including symbols for African click consonants and letters for the African reference alphabet (within the limitations of the Unicode character set);
letters of the International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration (IAST) as well as special symbols used in romanizations of Arabic and Hebrew;
a limited subset of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) for English, German, and French (including symbols used to denote long sounds and stress);
contemporary Greek letters (without diacritics).
The biggest problem is finding an alternative layout that has functions on every key and thus still offer a chance to have multiple colours without looking downright ugly and cluttered on a board.
I understand now why Ivan chose Cyrillic for his previous colourful sets.
Standard US International for example looks like this:
Note the missing extras on the FGHJKXVB keys.
So let's say for a moment we do Handarbeit. (Excuse the Paint Job ;) ) I took Originative's interpretation as a basis but I am sure we can shift things around a bit.
It's actually quite a classy set without the searing brightness that regular Handarbeit would be.
Or with US International additions. (took the negative colour for the alternative legends.