Making a Keyboard Layout

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  • kanata

    Improve keyboard comfort and usability with advanced customization

  • miryoku

    Miryoku is an ergonomic, minimal, orthogonal, and universal keyboard layout.

    I'd suggest to try [1] on an ergonomic (split) keyboard running QMK / ZMK or KMK firmware. It's a very well though out layout using only 36 keys.

    [1] https://github.com/manna-harbour/miryoku

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  • kmonad

    An advanced keyboard manager

    BTW creating really fancy keyboard layouts may be easier than you think: https://github.com/kmonad/kmonad

  • xmk

    Use programmable keyboard firmware with any keyboard.

    You could try to use https://github.com/manna-harbour/xmk from the same developer in order to run Miryoku on every keyboard.

  • qmk_firmware

    Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families (by ecliptik)

  • kb-layout-evaluation

    Evaluate ergonomic keyboard layouts over multiple languages (by florianfmmartin)

    I use something very close to this http://thedarnedestthing.com/daily%20beakl

    I also forked a tool of github to evaluate layouts considering multiple languages (ex: 40% french 60% english) https://github.com/florianfmmartin/kb-layout-evaluation

    But i have not updated it recently, take a look at original repo also ;)

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