What should the runic keycaps look like?

I’d pick @TimNN ’s latest Noto Bamum keycaps over anything else I’ve seen (though I’d still prefer to have my own custom legends if that’s not prohibitively expensive – but I wouldn’t want those until after I’ve had the keyboard long enough to decide on a final layout).

Thanks @TimNN . both jgb and noto are nice. Looks like line weight on the noto might be more aesthetic according to what @jesse says about the manufacturer’s laser abilities/limitations. I can’t wait to get one and have the office folk just stare in confusion and amazement.

So true !! That puzzled look on their face. Priceless.

[image] kajsa.anderson: That makes it very clear, and I definitely prefer the Noto font for banum. Is mende still on the table? I’m still torn between the two as well. The Noto Bamum looks like a proper human language font, properly suited for a keyboard, while the Mende is really out there -…

How do we move ahead now? Most people seem to be happy with either of the Bamum layout variants or the Mende layout, with slight preferences going in different directions. Should we put it to a vote, once @algernon (or another volunteer) has updated the Mende proposal? Is there a chance that we ca…

[image] lars: Is there a chance that we can get this done and included in the pilot run? The way it’s almost certain to work is that the pilot run keyboards will have QWERTY caps and everybody will get a free second set of keycaps of their preferred style. It remains to be seen whether those …

Both Bamum and Mende are attractive options. One issue I want to raise is whether there’s a cultural appropriation issue around adopting glyphs from Mende or Bamum and placing them at ~random on the keyboard. Both Mende and Bamum are living languages spoken in Africa. Both scripts are relatively m…

That is a good point - if we’re going to have nonsense glyphs on the keys, I would like it if they actually were nonsense, not someone else’s language that I am just ignorant of. Has anyone mentioned emoji keycaps yet? Half-kidding, but the Symbola font is free & has black-and-white glyphs.

Admin: Since this is really a discussion of layout ideas and not voting systems, I moved some discussion of voting systems over to a new topic. You can find those posts over here

Maybe we should give Linear A (and/or Linear B ) a try. I think ~35 centuries gives us enough distance to make cultural (mis)appropriation a non-issue, though I suspect it won’t look quite as good as our Mende & Bamum candidates.

Runic keycap layout

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