Morganically Grown

Today I’m releasing Typography, a modal keyboard layout for Mac OS X. It maps over 350 glyphs to the standard U.S. keyboard, grouped into “modes,” with highly intuitive, mnemonic keystrokes. It is available for download on its dedicated page.

Features:

• Number pad accents & diacritics
• Natural ligature & letterform entry
• Full sets of quotation marks, symbols, bullets, dashes, spaces, and mathematical characters
• Unicode Roman numerals, superscripts, subscripts, and currency sets
• Natural vulgar fraction entry
• Full set of upper and lowercase Greek characters
• Extended arrow set with number pad entry
• Mac OS keyboard glyph set

Rather than mapping strictly to Option and Shift-Option sequences, Typography groups like characters into sets, each set accessible with an Option keystroke. From there, each glyph is mapped either to an easy-to-remember single stroke, or to a series of strokes that compose a ligature or letterform.

It’s a Unicode keyboard layout, so it can only be used in applications which support Unicode layouts. Most recent releases of applications (i.e. within the past few years) include support for Unicode layouts.

Hope you enjoy it as much as I do! I’d love to hear your feedback, either via email or comment.

Links:

• Typography Keyboard Layout
• Typography Mappings

This entry was posted on Saturday, October 15th, 2005 at 7:14 pm and is filed under Mac. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.