Great news! Do you also think about other layout? Like bépo (french dvorak)?
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In general as we’re able to continue growing the community of people using Framework Laptops, it will get easier for us to develop and manufacture new layouts. We basically need to be able to sell a few hundred of any one design for it to work out.
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@nrp Is there a way to be informed when a desired layout is available? Iʼll get a bépo keyboard as soon as possible.
@nrp it would be great to get an ortholinear option in the future as well, perhaps even with a split spacebar.
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@Isaac_Lyons That would be too convenient, lol. Seriously though, I would absolutely buy into an ortho keyboard for my framework laptop if a grid option were available.
@nrp Is the Dvorak keyboard a hard-wired kb or is it just using the Dvorak keycap layout?
As it is, I’m currently using the clear keyboard and loving the hell out of it! =D
I would love a Thinkpad-style keyboard with dedicated page up/dn, home/end, ins/del, and volume keys. Smaller touchpad and physical mouse buttons would be really sweet too!
It might be easier just to do a blank keyboard module. If people are using exotic keyboard layouts presumably they are touch-typing.
They already have that, though.
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I did wonder, even as I typed it! Problem solved, then 
Even better: they have a blank black, and they have a transparent blank. So not just one, but two options!
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I can’t +1 this enough! Dvorak is the keyboard layout for professionals, it’s shocking how much of a speed boost you can get by using Dvorak vs QWERTY, even if you’re a proficient QWERTY typist. I still plan to buy a Notebook later in the year, but knowing a DVORAK keyboard is in the works just gold plates the reasons I’ll buy into this line.
Most OSes let you manually select a keyboard layout. So no, do t manually reprogram 
get a stealth keyboard and set it to the layout you want! 10 minute project.
The only complication is if you require it be Dvorak AND backlit.
Hey all 
For the ones in need of a Dvorak keyboard, have you considered learning to touch type?
I’m using a Dvorak US layout for more than 10 years and as I directly learned it by touch typing, I just buy laptops with a standard QWERTY keyboard.
That way I’m never stuck with vendors that don’t provide custom keyboards. And icing on the cake, my colleagues can pair-program on my laptop, I just need to switch back to the QWERTY layout.
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Same here, except with Colemak.
That being said, I’d like to try out Colemak-DH but, for proper key arrangement, it requires the ISO standard type of keyboard that isn’t sold in North America (where I’m located) where there’s an additional key to the lower-left of “A” that is directly to the right of the left shift.
https://colemakmods.github.io/mod-dh/
So a Colemak-DH ISO standard physical keyboard would be swell!
(you can technically use Colemak-DH on a North American-style ANSI keyboard but that variant moves the “Z” key to where “B” is located and, as someone that uses Ctrl+Z quite often, I’d prefer to not make that specific keyboard shortcut a pain to use - especially since I have small hands)
(it is slightly amusing though that, as shown by “Onboard” using the Colemak-DH ISO on my ANSI keyboard does result in two backslash keys)
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Considering that keycaps can be re-arranged, it would probably be efficient to simply sell the two bumped keycaps for a given layout (U & H for Dvorak, etc.) and flat F & J keycaps as opposed to an entire keyboard. And for more popular layouts such as Dvorak, whole keyboards for those who don’t want to risk it with their keycaps would also be good
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I actually second this, with QMK people can get blank keyboards and reprogram them.
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I just pre-ordered a Framework 16. I intend to rearrange its keycaps into the Dvorak layout, as I did to my MacBook Pro’s keyboard, but I would really love it if I could buy unpipped F and J keycaps and pipped U and H keycaps to make the conversion fully bespoke. Surely that can’t be a huge manufacturing ask, can it?
I’m not asking for the ability to order custom keycaps with arbitrary graphics on them. I’m not even asking for a predefined set of new graphics. I am literally only asking for the same graphics as are already being screened onto keycaps at the scale of millions, the only difference being which batch of plastic parts (pipped or unpipped) get dumped into the machine before starting a run with “F” selected as the graphic to print, etc. Given the relatively lower demand for these parts, probably one manufacturing run of them would keep the store’s inventory stocked for years to come.
You might have a point about storage of inventory, although even 1000 keycaps wouldn’t really take up much space on a shelf. Besides, Framework have already stated their goal of eventually producing every keyboard layout in existence, so they’re going to have to do a run of unpipped F and J keys eventually.
Oh, please. The four keycaps can be mailed in a recycled paper padded envelope. Or if ordered when ordering a Framework laptop, then four extra keycaps would be a completely negligible addition to throw into the box.
I’d be interested in that, if they could achieve an exact aesthetic and tactile match.
What? They are just clipped on with plastic clips. They pop right off. Are you telling me that Framework would have us throw away an entire keyboard when the only thing wrong with it is that someone’s toddler dropped a toy on it and cracked/chipped a plastic keycap? That wouldn’t at all be in keeping with their mission of producing a user-repairable product with minimal environmental impact.
I am also considering that option, but I don’t have the skills or equipment to screen or engrave graphics onto blank keycaps, and I don’t want to use stickers, as I dislike the feel.
Another idea I am considering is to buy both a US English keyboard module and a blank keyboard module and just swap all the letter and punctuation keycaps on the former out for blank keycaps from the latter, but I’d really rather have the keycaps labeled, as it helps when hunting for a keyboard shortcut with one hand or typing my password upside-down, etc. (I am very happy that I rearranged all the keycaps on my MacBook Pro that I am soon to replace with a Framework, but the pips on the repositioned “F” and “J” keys look silly, thus my wish for a conversion kit.)
@anon81945988, you seem to have an axe to grind. I kind of wonder why you’re even here if you hate DIY so much.
I’m not concerned about rearranging keycaps. As I said, I did it to my old MacBook Pro, which uses essentially the same plastic scissor mechanisms. 33 keycaps popped off and reattached to convert from QWERTY to Dvorak. 0 plastic bits broken. Took about half an hour. All you have to know is which edge of the keycap seats vertically and which edge slides horizontally. A quick search on YouTube will answer that question. (You answered it for the Framework keyboard indirectly with the video in one of the posts you quoted.) So okay, maybe the keycaps are not designed to be user-replaceable, but they are. Most consumer products are not designed to be repairable, but many of them are nonetheless.
Today I performed this rearrangement of my new Laptop 16 keyboard to the Dvorak layout without incident. I do understand why Framework warn against attempting this, as perhaps burlier human beings might not employ the delicate touch necessary to do this without breaking anything, but if you exercise all due care, it’s really quite a doable modification.
I have posted a video to YouTube for anyone curious what the process looks like. It does appear as though I’m straining a lot to pop the keycap off, but that’s because I didn’t notice I was using the wrong side of the spudger. The shorter side works better. (It’s hard to see well when there’s a camera between your face and the work piece.) When using the shorter side, the keycaps come off more easily and in two steps, as the two clips detach individually rather than simultaneously as they did in my video.
It’s just really such a shame that Framework won’t sell pipped U and H keys and unpipped F and J keys, as that would make this mod truly bespoke.
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