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Principles for Keyboard Layouts (2022)

keyboard layouts I spent a few months iterating on a keyboard layout that I now like a lot, so I wanted to share my take-aways about the process and the principles I found useful along the way. As you see in the top gif, I’m currently using a moonlander keyboard.

For instance, here’s a thing I find absurd: I spend a lot of time typing special characters, and on a standard keyboard they’re terribly laid out. period comma apostrophe double-quote pound, equals, colon question mark, exclamation point underscore semi-colon parens, brackets, curly braces I started with sticking tiny cut out post-it notes over the keys, followed by attempting to tape those on, followed by blank keycaps that I tried to label with sharpie and nail polish.

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