Keyboard kitting

Base Kit

White: ANSI TKL

These keys support standard ANSI TKL layout with a 6.25u bottom row. Barred F and J are also provided, the non-barred versions may be scooped or plain.

Red: Tsangan

This is a very common option on many boards as an alternative to 6.25u bottom row, and on some boards - particularly TKLs - is the only bottom row option available.

Cyan: F13

TKLs with this key are increasingly common, including in-stock options such as the Novelkeys NK87 and NK87 EE. It is added in the base kit to avoid the need to buy an extension kit for a single key for boards like this.

Purple: Stepped caps

Stepped Caps Lock and stepped Ctrl

Orange: 65/75

Support for 65% and 75% layouts with the most common rightmost columns

• 65%: Del, Pg Up, Pg Dn, End
• 75%: Del, Home, Pg Up, Pg Dn, End
• Extra 1u Ctrl and Alt mods are included for the space between the spacebar and arrows on 65% and 75% layouts that don't have a blocker. An extra 1u super key is already included in the red keys

Green: HHKB

• In combination with the super and alt from the red keys and 1.75u shift from the orange keys, Windows/Linux HHKB layout is supported
• In combination with the pink Mac keys, Mac HHKB layout is supported

Brown: 1800

On 1800 layout, End and Pg Dn sit on R1, above the numpad. The End key is provided in the base kit to also allow use of the end key with uncommon 75% layouts where Home and End are on the top row.

Blue: UK ISO

These are provided in the base kit rather than a NorDeUK kit because of the small number of keys, and because UK ISO keys do not overlap with any keys in German, Swedish/Finnish, Norwegian or Danish. A NorDe kit should be provided instead.

Pink: Mac

Super and Alt (Command and Option) are swapped round on the bottom row on Mac, so these are required for Mac bottom row support when using Tsangan layout. The second 1u Alt is already included with the orange keys.

Grey: Forties and Alice

• Supports the usual Alice/Arisu spacebar sizes of 2u, 2.25u and 2.75u
• Extra B for Alice
• Allows use of split spacebar on boards like the Ikki68 Aurora, in 2.25 - 1.25 - 2.75 layout
• Basic support for forties layouts, such as Planck, Minivan, Neko, UD_40, UT47, Daisy

Teal: Uncommon 65/76

• 2u and 2.25u Right Shift for layouts where arrows are offset by 0.25u/0.5u (eg, "660" layout); 2u is also used for ANSI left shift when using non-standard stagger (eg DZ60 PCB)
• Support for uncommon right columns on 65/75:
  • 75%: Del, Pg Up, Pg Dn, Home, End (eg, Keychron K2)
  • 75%: blocker/rotary, Insert, Delete, Pg Up, Pg Dn
  • 65%: Insert, Del, Pg Up, Pg Dn (eg, default on CU65, Practice65, Space65)
    • This layout preserves the position of Insert & Delete as on standard TKL
  • 65%: blocker/rotary, Delete, Pg Up, Pg Dn (eg, default on Iron165)
  • 65%: Del, Home, Pg Up, Pg Dn (eg, Drop Alt)

Yellow: US/Terminal ISO

US ISO "Terminal ISO" keys. Some people like this layout I guess.

Numpad

White: Numpad

• Adds 1u zero either for use alongside 00, or for 1800 layout where that space is taken by arrows
• Barred 5

Pink: Mac

• Mac numpads use this layout of equals, minus and plus on the rightmost column instead of 1u minus and 2u-tall plus
• Mac numpads don't have Num Lock, so the Clear key is provided instead

Brown: 1800

Pg Dn goes above the numpad on 1800 layout. This is used alongside the R1 Home key from the base kit

Created by members of the #keyboards channel of the Relay.fm community Discord.