macOS

Colemak DH and Colemak DHk for macOS

Each bundle has support for ANSI, ISO, and Matrix keyboards in both regular and "Extended" deadkey variants. These layouts are based off of the built-in "ABC" and "ABC - Extended" layouts that come with macOS.

Download (Quick Start)

1. From the project's main page, click on the Code button, then Download ZIP
2. Extract the downloaded ZIP file.
3. Locate the "macOS" folder containing the Colemak-DH bundle files.

Install

To install, simply copy the Colemak DH.bundle or Colemak DHk.bundle file to your Keyboard Layouts directory. There are two possible Keyboard Layouts directories to choose from:

• /Library/Keyboard Layouts aka Macintosh HD > Library > Keyboard Layouts
  Installing to this directory will install the keyboard layout system-wide for all users. This is the preferred installation directory.
• ~/Library/Keyboard Layouts aka Macintosh HD > Users > USERNAME > Library > Keyboard Layouts
  This is your personal user-local keyboard layouts directory. The easiest way to navigate there is to open a new Finder window, select Go from the top menu, hold the Option key on the keyboard and select the Library menu item. From there, if the Keyboard Layouts directory does not exist, you must make it yourself. Installing to this directory will install the keyboard layout for you only and not other users on the system. Be warned! Using the user-local installation directory does not allow the layout to be used in sensitive inputs like password entry dialogues; you may find that macOS will switch you off of your selected keyboard layout from time to time if it is installed here.

After installation, you may need to log out of your system and log back in for the keyboard layout to become available in your System Preferences.

To enable the installed keyboard layout, launch the System Preferences app and navigate to Keyboard -> Input Sources and use the + button in the bottom left corner of the pane to select your desired keyboard layout. The newly installed keyboard layouts should be available in the "English" section.

Customization

If you'd like to customize these keyboard layouts, you can edit the XML inside of the .keylayout files directly or, if obtuse XML isn't to your liking, Ukelele is a graphical tool for editing these bundles. Ukelele is available for download at https://software.sil.org/ukelele/

Alternative - Karabiner Elements

There is also an application called Karabiner Elements which allows you to remap keys in macOS.