The Preonic traces its lineage to Jack Humbert, founder of OLKB and the engineer of the Planck keyboard, whose work helped shape the modern custom mechanical-keyboard movement. Humbert was an early advocate for smaller, programmable keyboards built around layers rather than an ever-growing number of physical keys. His work on the Planck also helped give rise to QMK, the open-source firmware platform that became fundamental to custom keyboard design.
