Ukrainian Typography Keyboard

Ukrainian keyboard layout with typographic symbols based on Ilya Birman's typography keyboard

Installation

Installer

• Download a ukrainian-typography.dmg from the release page
• Run the Keyboard Installer
• Drag and drop ukrainian-typography.bundle to the installer window
• Choose one of the available options:
  • Install for current user (recommended)
  • Install for all users (Sierra or earlier)
• After a logout you can add the typographic layout in System Preferences > Keyboard > Input Sources menu

Manual

• Download archive
• Move ukrainian-typography.bundle to the folder with keyboard layouts for the current user:
  • Open Finder window
  • Press Command+Shift+G
  • Input path ~/Library/Keyboard Layouts and press Enter
  • Move file here
• After a logout you can add the typographic layout in System Preferences > Keyboard > Input Sources menu

Layout

Ukrainian typography layout offers several useful options:

• You can use correct typography symbols like — and ….
• It includes pairs of different brackets such as «», „“, “”, and ‘’.
• Special symbols like ©, ®, and ™ are also available.
• The degree symbol ° allows you to write temperatures like +24°C.
• Math symbols such as 1¹+2²+3³≠30, ¹⁄₂+¹⁄₃+¹⁄₄≈1, and 2×2=4 are easily accessible.
• You can type symbols of currencies like ₴, £, ¥, €, $, and ¢ with ease.
• Arrows ←, →, ↑, and ↓

🇺🇦 Layout

⇧ shift

⌥ option

Additionally, by using ⌥, you can input Russian and Belarusian Cyrillic symbols:

• ⌥ + і = ы
• ⌥ + е = ё
• ⌥ + є = э
• ⌥ + ь = ъ
• ⌥ + у = ў

⌥ option + ⇧ shift

With ⌥ + ⇧ and accents, graves, and other symbols, you can type a lot of Slavic letters:

• ⌥ + ⇧ + ¨ than а = ä
• ⌥ + ⇧ + ¨ than ж = ӝ

When you select special symbols, you enter "dead key" mode, allowing you to choose from a limited set of symbols that support this special function. For instance, if you type ⌥ + ⇧ + ¨ for diaeresis:

Several Slavic letters are hidden, use ⌥ + ⇧ + К "dead key" to access it:

License

The project is developed by Anton Shevchuk, and distributed under MIT LICENSE