Not to be left out in the cold, Matias is going for a 60% keyboard

It’s a little amusing to see this actually.  After all, Edgar Matias is one of the pioneers in the minimal keys keyboard business.  Some of Matias’ claim to fame includes a single handed keyboard for instance.  Yet, such device is so specialized that mainstream users don’t ever even take a second look.  So, for Matias to continue to innovate in the keyboard layout front, they are coming out with a few designs, some radical, some more calibrated to the market trends.  The 60% keyboard Matias is their interpretation of yet another keyboard layout to accommodate the necessary keys within the alphanumeric block.  Matias has chosen to change the shape of some keys by either halving the width or close to doubling it.  Thus the result is a new and interesting look for the bottom row housing an out sized space bar.  This way, the arrow navigation keys are not too small like those suffering on some laptop keyboards. 

I will be closely watching this development since Matias has elected to use this layout for their ergo keyboard as well.  So, it’s pretty much doubling down on the design.  Now, Matias knows a thing or two about keyboard layout and ergonomic designs, after all he is one of the experts in the area.  So, I am interested to see how this impacts this ever shifting place in the mechanical keyboard world.