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Apparently, my education as a physicist has trained me in the use of hotmetal palettes and it never occurred to me that others might not find them as easily graspable as I do. Interesting.

NeoMenlo, those images look very nice! (Maybe just a little too out-of-focus, to be picky.) I don't understand what the percentages are for though? Also, how did you make them; using another Photoshop palette maybe? Pray tell. To me, the hotmetal shows the problem areas of Dvorak and QWERTY more clearly, but I guess only physicists may see it that way.  :)

Über die Deutsche Sprache Frage: Ja, ich sprech's. Ich habe Deutsch in die Schule seit lange gelernt. Mein Deutsch ist aber leider nicht besonders gut. Alle Deutscher wollen immer Englisch mit mir reden, so ich habe keine Chance, mich zu üben. (More to the point though: The statistics for the usage of English, Spanish, German and French are stated in my Excel file so why would I have to speak it to have an opinion? And locally, it doesn't matter how narrow a language may be. In Norway, presenting a Norwegian Dvorak or Colemak for instance is a great asset to its popularity and almost mandatory for its use.)

I don't really understand what you mean by out of focus. I didn't make it any more blurry. Is it possible that there's something about you're computer that makes PNG-24 blurry?

It tells the user that red means 12% usage, and blue means 0%. The colors between it are, hopefully, easily inferred. I thought that it would make it so that there is absolutely no confusion about when color is warm or cool.

Take the greyscale image. Convert the color spectrum to from greyscale to RGB (Image > Mode > RGB). Then apply a gradient color map (Image > Adjustments > Gradient Map). I created a gradient that  looks exactly like the one at the title bar (I later used the gradient tool to fill in the exact same gradient I just made).

I've never studied one before. I just thought this would be easy to understand at a glance.

Vilem, did you read your email today you chaotic person you? I made a grayscale image of English and one of German. I can mail them to you but not upload them from home.

You shouldn't use these charts in Wikipedia, because they go against Wikipedia's policy of No Original Research.

Shai: If Vilem includes all relevant references, I do not see how the images can be original and not source-based research. Are you certain you're not misreading that rule?

Fair enough, as long as you use references it's probably okay.

Neo, I have currently no access to any other graphics program than mspaint (xD), so could you modify the images 'a bit'? It would be great if you could
    •get rid of the bar at the top of each image (the one with a gradient from black to white and the layout name on it)
    •put the 3 images all into one picture with the layout name left aligned on top of each layout in black without "key usage" infront?
(I might seem a bit pedantic, but hey, I'm german!)

And could you also do the same for german, using the info from https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buchstabenh%C3%A4ufigkeit, to illustrate that colemak works very well for german too? (remeber to use qwertz instead of qwerty)

I'm thinking of something like this:

Sorry, I just want this article to be at least near perfect. I know they'll probably find something to moan about at the german wikipedia, but I think the better the article, the more likeley it is that it won't be deleted!

Thanks! I can probably use photoshop soon, so I can do the rest myself, but thanks so much again! And the S key is split because of the ß is it??

Yes. At least, thats where I thought they were placed. Was I wrong?

Thank you!

Thats what I though. I tried to make it a way that I could understand (blue = cold, red = hot). I do think that the sudden light blue => yellow line at the left looks kind of bad, but it makes a ton of sense when you think about it.

Grey kind of has wiki's name all over it... So thats kind of how it makes sense to me...

No, JLuber, NeoMenlo meant the colemak position–with alt gr pressed–so he was quite right.

Edit: Oh, I apologise for this oversight, I never noticed that neo put the ß into the wrong position on the german layout. You were right JLuber!

I wanted to add however, that adding ß on the frequency diagramm is not the best idea, as it destroys it's purpose: seeing at first glance the distribution of frequency by intensity of colour. Also, if you would add the ß, I don't see why ä,ö and ü and all other symbols created by alt gr shouldn't be added either.