Computer keyboard

A computer peripheral modelled after the typewriter keyboard. Design to be used by a human to enter data by manual depression of keys. Most keyboards have characters engraved or printed on the keys, these usually represent characters selected from some language alphabet along with numbers and punctuation and other control keys.

Different keyboards may have different keys or keys layed out in different ways, this is the subject of keyboard layout. In english speaking countries, the QWERTY layout is common.