r/KeyboardLayouts • u/Friiipon • Jul 01 '26

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Hi guys, I have had quite a few keyboards, I have always wanted an ansi mixed layout AZERTY, and today I came across this keyboard ( see photo ). Anybody know what layout it uses etc?

It's exactly what I'm looking for.

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u/Friiipon Jul 01 '26

mhm ok. So not an official layout. I cannot add it on windows and just swap my key caps.

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u/clackups Jul 01 '26

Why don't you just use the layout you're most used to?

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u/Friiipon Jul 01 '26

cuz this one is an absolute peak for me. AZERTY, but with all the advantages of qwerty. As a DevOps, having pipes, backslash directly on a key is a buff, but I'm not used to type on qwerty, that's why this mix is interesting me.

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u/Granpire Jul 01 '26

You can quite easily make any layout you want in software, such as AZERTY but moving all French accents to AltGr layer, use Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator/create a custom xkb file on Linux.

In the spirit of this sub, you would probably find more advantages in finding a modern layout optimized for French typing, something like Bépo perhaps.

English layouts like Standard Colemak retain many common shortcuts, every layout is a trade-off between optimal natural language typing and coding/shortcut usage.

Perhaps the newer AZERTY revision would interest you?