[ogab]

I never had the pleasure of trying one of those keyboards. The 6–7u-long spacebar is a trapping of its typewriter heritage just like QWERTY and staggered keys.

Even on their full-size keyboards with numpads, Apple spacebars are only 5 keys wide. Thumbs are for Command!

Even better: split spacebar! On my daily driver I only have a 1.25u key for my primary space. On the left I have a luxuriously large 2.25u SpaceFn key.

[FirebornX]

I never really went down the keyboard layer rabbit hole until recently when I was looking for a really good, small, portable mechanical keyboard and came across the Planck 40% kit over at Drop. I loved this idea of having a split spacebar with two dedicated keys for different layers. I mean, it's kinda necessary for such a small board... But still, cool concept to my naive little mind. Traditional space bars really do take up way too much... space...

https://drop.com/buy/planck-mechanical-keyboard?defaultSelec...