I got myself a pink variant of the IDOBAO v2, but haven’t built it yet. I do love this layout:
(Picture taken from https://www.idobao.net)
I’d say it’s the perfect crossover between a Leopold FC660M and FC980M.
The reason I think this layout is superior:
- Properly spaced F-keys.
- Arrow keys are a little offset from the rest to make it “breathe”
- The use of only 3 keys over the right arrow key (similar to the FC660M even though that doesn’t have the dedicatred F-row), even though you could fit 5, also gives the arrow keys an extra breathing room + it makes sense to use FN with the arrow keys for home/pgdn/pgup/end and to have a dedicated key for insert and delete.
- It uses standard keycaps.
Just take a look at how you don’t want your 75% to look like (taken from https://mechanicalkeyboards.com):
