My name is Erika Sato and I work for a Japanese keyboard company, we manufacture high quality mechanical Keyboards in Taiwan.

Recently we have noticed a growing interest in the Colemak layout and we would like to find out if there is enough demand for us to make a batch of Colemak keyboard available in either Cherry mx Blue or Brown switches.

Yes, mechanical keyboards are more expensive, but we believe most of the Colemak users have invested significant time learning the layout, it would logical to invest in a properly made mechanical keyboard. Therefore, at this point, we are not considering robber dome membrane keyboard or scissor switch keyboard, as most of them have identical keycap profile on every row, users can simply switch keys with relative ease.

If the feedback is good and the demand is strong, we may produce a batch of true hardware colemak keyboard, meaning your colemak will stay as a colemak even under DOS.

I am in the process of making a more thorough survey on survey monkey; in the meaning time, please tell me what you think.

Indeed, the more feedback I can get from you the better the chance this project will get a go ahead.

cactux wrote:Since the Dvorak, and Collemac support is built in most of the latest OS. Is hard to justify a native Dvorak or Collemac keyboard. Maybe the only reason why this can be justified is if we use the same board in diferent workstations (tech support, administrator, etc).If this new features does not impact the final price I am on it.

BTW I am use Dvorak as my main layout