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Hillside keyboard

Hillside is an open-source split ergonomic keyboard with Choc-spaced keys, quite aggressive stagger, four key thumb arc and break-off pinky column.

KBD.news
Published December 8, 2021

Hillside is a split ergonomic keyboard with 3x6+4+2 choc-spaced keys – designed by mmccoyd. It has the aggressive stagger of the Ferris but a longer thumb arc and a break-off outer pinky column.

So rather like a choc Kyria, minus two keys.

With 42 to 48 keys it isn't minimalist, but it is compact on finger travel while still allowing roomy keymaps.

GitHub repo: https://github.com/mmccoyd/hillside

Published on Wed 8th Dec 2021. Featured in KBD #56 (source).

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