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.