Ahoy! I’m starting a new project for a friend and I have a query for you fine folks - does the layout with a numpad and arrow keys but without an F-row up top have a name?
Either way, can you recommend any models or case / pcb combos to look over?
Would 96 key work? Maybe input club Kira? Vortex vibe maybe too? Although that doesn’t have arrows
I’m a big fan of 96 keys myself (putting pennies in a jar for a Kira Stealth), but the friend whom the project is for doesn’t like them as much. Something kind of like this, maybe:
Doesn’t need to have the arrow keys nestled-in like that, but I think it’s fine if they happen to be.
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I believe there is a southpaw board in this layout in some IC.
Reminds me of my layout I call broken candybar
I wanted to include a numpad but not duplicate keys, so I ended up with this solution, admittedly unconventional.
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If you’re thinking of the Clarabelle, today is the final day of the GB. No number row though.
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Not gonna lie… The cow badge totally out me off😂
I can’t really imagine using that layout… but man is it gorgeous.
Were I ever to make a film surrounding the life and times of an eccentric master graphic designer, I’d have one of these on their desk.
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Did you ever make it? I like it a lot. A Candybar with a split. This is something that should be on the market. I would buy it.
I haven’t, but plenty others have at this point. I think the community settled on FRL or function-row-less as a modifier for existing layouts - FRL TKL for example.
I believe I have seen FRL 1800, but that is a very recent name. Maybe compact 1800 for something older 
There was an older topic related to this that had some keyboard models listed. They are under the FRL-1800/Mini-1800 section.
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