The Q15 Max is its first ortholinear keyboard. Keychron Q15 Max - Design. The ortholinear layout grants the Q15 Max a shocking 66 keys in total, including the two knobs on the sides.

The Lodash33 is an ortholinear mechanical keyboard. The joints in our fingers are naturally designed to help the fingertip move up and down in a plane, as the finger curls inwards.

Ortholinear keyboards, where the keys aren’t staggered but arranged in a neat rectangle may seem like an oddity that’s hard to type on at first and an ergonomic nightmare at best.

There are all sorts of reasons to build your own keyboard, and we would argue that the more custom the layout, the easier it is to justify the time and expense. At least, that’s what we&#8217… ...

But if you’re going to make your own keyboard, you should go all out, right? Right. So [GoldenSights] started by adding another 12 F keys and making it ortholinear.

Dygma also recently announced a Kickstarter campaign to fund a project that builds on the foundations of the Raise keyboard by adapting and refining it into an ortholinear design.

On an ortholinear keyboard, those three keys are in precisely one line. The “40 percent” means this keyboard cuts off the number row and changes the sizes of some other keys to save space.

But now, thanks to this strange grid-like “ortholinear” keyboard called the Preonic, I’m slowly but surely improving, and I’m loving every frustrating minute of it. Courtesy. Drop + OLKB Preonic ...