NEO Layout (Year 2004)

By Xah Lee. Date: .

NEO Original

The NEO layout is efficient layout for German. Neo layout improved on de-ergo layout. Neo layout is started in 2004 by Hanno Behrens.

Home page http://www.neo-layout.org/ and original site http://pebbles.schattenlauf.de/layout/index_us.html

neo layout v1
Neo layout v1. original neo layout, ~2005.

Neo 2 Layout

The neo layout has all vowels on the left hand side, so it optimize typing by altering hand, like Dvorak Keyboard Layout.

Neo layout version 2 is released on 2010-03-29. It changes the positions of X J Q keys by cyling them in that order. Also, new arrangement for layer 3, and added layer 4, 5, 6.

neo layout heatmap german 2024-04-27
neo layout heatmap on German language 2024-04-27
neo layout layer 1
neo layout layer 1. (Neo 2. Current as of 2022-01-08)
neo layout layer 2
neo layout layer 2
neo layout layer 3
neo layout layer 3
neo layout layer 4
neo layout layer 4
neo layout layer 5
neo layout layer 5
neo layout layer 6
neo layout layer 6

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