Dhorf

Dhorf is me taking Whorf and trying to make it more wieldy. This means that it mostly follows Whorf's goals of low sfb/sfs distance, but also on lsbs and scissors. It does quite well in all those aspects, creating one intentional alt (tw) in the process. Besides mb and wh there is very little that is obviously wrong with this layout.

I basically started with vanilla Whorf, from which I swapped away until I created something I really liked. I first moved v off right index and reordered indexes more to my liking, focusing both on giving keys comfortable positions for lsbs while also keeping sfb/sfs distance in mind. Changing fs into vs meant I remove the fr scissor and hnb into hnm removes bl and br from the equation.

From there I initially moved g to left hand for a nice ng roll, but I eventually decided to move it back because I couldn't balance having a nice dg sfb with not making nd and ng a pain in the ass, not to mention something like thing being godawful. With angle mod and dg on bot row it might still be viable, but I don't really like it. This did mean I had to create a tw sfb, which works really well as an alt.

I also considered taking more from sturdy by using ji, with ' on index but eventually decided against it because it went against the idea that this layout should do really well on (non-altable) sfbs.

There is actually very little I don't like about this layout, besides mb, wh and the rl sfb. th felt a little awkward at first but eventually felt super natural, tw feels great and hnm works great as a column despite relatively high movement. Honestly as an all-round good layout this is probably the best I got, at least at this point.