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Chillmin Layout

Introduction to chillmin Layout

Layout philosophy

  • convinience is priority and minimal by design
  • primary colemak mod-dh layer for alpha
  • coding friendly symbol layer for nums and symbols
  • fun layer for media and other functional stuff
  • system layer for system level controls
  • toggle option to qwerty layer for boomer compatibility
  • uses only 36 keys

Base layer and mods

  • The CM Layout has 5x3 keys per hand so we can only fit the main alphabets so we need to use other ZMK features to fit our mod keys.

Base layer

Colemak layer as base only important thing is the modifier keys, enter end space keys.

  • Enter keys has layer tap feature, that means holding it will momentarily enble the 1 indexed layer.

base layer

Number and Symbols Layer

numsym_layer

  • Design for keeps same use case keys closer.
  • Brackets for coding convenience
  • Arrow keys for like vim

Fun layer

fun_layer

System layer

sys_layer

Qwerty layer

  • For boomer compatibility

qwerty_layer

Other combos

left hand combo

right hand combo

sys combo

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