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.