Raise Ergo
An ergonomic keyboard layout for the Dygma Raise keyboard, geared towards programming and the command line on macOS and Ubuntu.
Benefits/Design Principles
- QWERTY-based for ease of learning.
- Reduces stress on your pinkies by moving keys away from them and instead to your thumbs.
- Reduces discomfort from awkward key combinations by putting the modifier keys under your thumbs
and finger tips. Inserting emojis with ⌃⌘␣ has never been
easier!
😜 - Reduces hand movement and increases data entry speed by having cursor keys, deletion keys and ↩︎ under your finger tips, plus ⇥ under your left thumb.
- Speeds up text editing by having dedicated keys for skipping/deleting words/lines under your finger tips.
- Keeps ` near ⇥ and ⌃ near ⌘, so you can easily
- switch apps with ⌘⇥,
- switch windows with ⌘`,
- switch tabs with ⌃⇥.
- Makes it easier to do programming, use the command line and write Markdown, by having word
separators (␣, -, _), quotation marks (',
", `) and braces ([, ], {, })
under your thumbs. This also means you can more easily
- navigate backward with ⌘[ & forward with ⌘],
- zoom in with ⌘- & out with ⌘=, and
- type
~to go to your home dir with ⇧`.
Layers
Layer 0 — macOS typing
Layer 1 — macOS editing
Layer 2 — Linux/Windows typing
Layer 3 — Linux/Windows editing
Author
© 2020-2021 Marlon Richert
License
This project is licensed under the GPL-3.0 License. See the LICENSE file for details.