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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

Layer 0 — macOS typing


layer 1

Layer 1 — macOS editing


layer 2

Layer 2 — Linux/Windows typing


layer 3

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.