diff --git a/app/src/main/assets/layouts/clip_bottom_row.json b/app/src/main/assets/layouts/clip_bottom_row.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2a7c8f6b1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/src/main/assets/layouts/clip_bottom_row.json
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+[
+  [
+    { "label": "alpha", "width": 0.15 },
+    { "label": "space", "width": -1 },
+    { "label": "delete", "width": 0.15 }
+  ]
+]
diff --git a/app/src/main/assets/layouts/emoji_bottom_row.json b/app/src/main/assets/layouts/emoji_bottom_row.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2a7c8f6b1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/src/main/assets/layouts/emoji_bottom_row.json
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+[
+  [
+    { "label": "alpha", "width": 0.15 },
+    { "label": "space", "width": -1 },
+    { "label": "delete", "width": 0.15 }
+  ]
+]
diff --git a/app/src/main/java/helium314/keyboard/keyboard/KeyboardId.java b/app/src/main/java/helium314/keyboard/keyboard/KeyboardId.java
index f7b855a33..ac39680a8 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/helium314/keyboard/keyboard/KeyboardId.java
+++ b/app/src/main/java/helium314/keyboard/keyboard/KeyboardId.java
@@ -63,7 +63,8 @@ public final class KeyboardId {
     public static final int ELEMENT_EMOJI_CATEGORY16 = 26;
     public static final int ELEMENT_CLIPBOARD = 27;
     public static final int ELEMENT_NUMPAD = 28;
-    public static final int ELEMENT_CLIP_EMOJI_BOTTOM_ROW = 29; // todo: maybe separate for customization
+    public static final int ELEMENT_EMOJI_BOTTOM_ROW = 29;
+    public static final int ELEMENT_CLIPBOARD_BOTTOM_ROW = 30;
 
     public final RichInputMethodSubtype mSubtype;
     public final int mWidth;
@@ -192,6 +193,10 @@ public boolean isEmojiKeyboard() {
         return mElementId >= ELEMENT_EMOJI_RECENTS && mElementId <= ELEMENT_EMOJI_CATEGORY16;
     }
 
+    public boolean isEmojiClipBottomRow() {
+        return mElementId == ELEMENT_CLIPBOARD_BOTTOM_ROW || mElementId == ELEMENT_EMOJI_BOTTOM_ROW;
+    }
+
     public int imeAction() {
         return InputTypeUtils.getImeOptionsActionIdFromEditorInfo(mEditorInfo);
     }
diff --git a/app/src/main/java/helium314/keyboard/keyboard/clipboard/ClipboardHistoryView.kt b/app/src/main/java/helium314/keyboard/keyboard/clipboard/ClipboardHistoryView.kt
index 9ccc6e5be..846ce19ee 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/helium314/keyboard/keyboard/clipboard/ClipboardHistoryView.kt
+++ b/app/src/main/java/helium314/keyboard/keyboard/clipboard/ClipboardHistoryView.kt
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ class ClipboardHistoryView @JvmOverloads constructor(
         PointerTracker.switchTo(keyboardView)
         keyboardView.visibility = View.VISIBLE
         val kls = KeyboardLayoutSet.Builder.buildEmojiClipBottomRow(context, editorInfo)
-        val keyboard = kls.getKeyboard(KeyboardId.ELEMENT_CLIP_EMOJI_BOTTOM_ROW)
+        val keyboard = kls.getKeyboard(KeyboardId.ELEMENT_CLIPBOARD_BOTTOM_ROW)
         keyboardView.setKeyboard(keyboard)
         clipboardLayoutParams.setActionBarProperties(keyboardView) // todo: rename to bottomRowKeyboard
     }
diff --git a/app/src/main/java/helium314/keyboard/keyboard/emoji/EmojiPalettesView.java b/app/src/main/java/helium314/keyboard/keyboard/emoji/EmojiPalettesView.java
index 8feee4a79..b3645c633 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/helium314/keyboard/keyboard/emoji/EmojiPalettesView.java
+++ b/app/src/main/java/helium314/keyboard/keyboard/emoji/EmojiPalettesView.java
@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ private void setupBottomRowKeyboard(final EditorInfo editorInfo) {
         PointerTracker.switchTo(keyboardView);
         keyboardView.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
         final KeyboardLayoutSet kls = KeyboardLayoutSet.Builder.buildEmojiClipBottomRow(getContext(), editorInfo);
-        final Keyboard keyboard = kls.getKeyboard(KeyboardId.ELEMENT_CLIP_EMOJI_BOTTOM_ROW);
+        final Keyboard keyboard = kls.getKeyboard(KeyboardId.ELEMENT_EMOJI_BOTTOM_ROW);
         keyboardView.setKeyboard(keyboard);
         mEmojiLayoutParams.setActionBarProperties(keyboardView); // todo: rename to bottomRowKeyboard
     }
diff --git a/app/src/main/java/helium314/keyboard/keyboard/internal/KeyboardBuilder.kt b/app/src/main/java/helium314/keyboard/keyboard/internal/KeyboardBuilder.kt
index f5d46f699..fb246e06f 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/helium314/keyboard/keyboard/internal/KeyboardBuilder.kt
+++ b/app/src/main/java/helium314/keyboard/keyboard/internal/KeyboardBuilder.kt
@@ -50,26 +50,6 @@ open class KeyboardBuilder<KP : KeyboardParams>(protected val mContext: Context,
             mParams.mAllowRedundantPopupKeys = true
             readAttributes(R.xml.kbd_emoji)
             keysInRows = EmojiParser(mParams, mContext).parse()
-        } else if (id.mElementId == KeyboardId.ELEMENT_CLIP_EMOJI_BOTTOM_ROW) {
-            // try catch, single row check, customizable layout, maybe set up other stuff, ...
-            // possibly some things could be determined automatically and the parser used normally?
-            addLocaleKeyTextsToParams(mContext, mParams, Settings.getInstance().current.mShowMorePopupKeys)
-            mParams.readAttributes(mContext, null)
-            mParams.mTopPadding /= 4 // not perfect, may cause 1 pixel offsets because it's already been converted to int once
-            val baseKeys = RawKeyboardParser.parseJsonString("""
-[
-  [
-    { "label": "alpha", "width": 0.15 },
-    { "label": "space", "width": -1 },
-    { "label": "delete", "width": 0.15 }
-  ]
-]
-            """.trimIndent())
-            keysInRows = KeyboardParser(mParams, mContext).createRows(baseKeys.map { it.mapNotNull { it.compute(mParams) }.toMutableList() }
-                .take(1).toMutableList()) // we set the height for a single row only (in emoji and clipboard params), so we only use one!
-            if (Settings.getInstance().current.mShowsNumberRow)
-                keysInRows.first().forEach { it.mHeight *= 0.8f }
-            determineAbsoluteValues()
         } else {
             try {
                 setupParams()
diff --git a/app/src/main/java/helium314/keyboard/keyboard/internal/keyboard_parser/KeyboardParser.kt b/app/src/main/java/helium314/keyboard/keyboard/internal/keyboard_parser/KeyboardParser.kt
index 40d39be37..21c07fe50 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/helium314/keyboard/keyboard/internal/keyboard_parser/KeyboardParser.kt
+++ b/app/src/main/java/helium314/keyboard/keyboard/internal/keyboard_parser/KeyboardParser.kt
@@ -50,8 +50,15 @@ class KeyboardParser(private val params: KeyboardParams, private val context: Co
 
         val baseKeys = RawKeyboardParser.parseLayout(params, context)
         val keysInRows = createRows(baseKeys)
-        // rescale height if we have anything but the usual 4 rows
-        val heightRescale = if (keysInRows.size != 4) 4f / keysInRows.size else 1f
+        val heightRescale: Float
+        if (params.mId.isEmojiClipBottomRow) {
+            // rescale height if number row is enabled
+            heightRescale = if (Settings.getInstance().current.mShowsNumberRow) 0.8f else 1f
+            params.mTopPadding /= 4 // not perfect, may cause 1 pixel offsets because it's already been converted to int once
+        } else {
+            // rescale height if we have anything but the usual 4 rows
+            heightRescale = if (keysInRows.size != 4) 4f / keysInRows.size else 1f
+        }
         if (heightRescale != 1f) {
             keysInRows.forEach { row -> row.forEach { it.mHeight *= heightRescale } }
         }
@@ -314,3 +321,5 @@ const val LAYOUT_NUMBER = "number"
 const val LAYOUT_PHONE = "phone"
 const val LAYOUT_PHONE_SYMBOLS = "phone_symbols"
 const val LAYOUT_NUMBER_ROW = "number_row"
+const val LAYOUT_EMOJI_BOTTOM_ROW = "emoji_bottom_row"
+const val LAYOUT_CLIPBOARD_BOTTOM_ROW = "clip_bottom_row"
diff --git a/app/src/main/java/helium314/keyboard/keyboard/internal/keyboard_parser/RawKeyboardParser.kt b/app/src/main/java/helium314/keyboard/keyboard/internal/keyboard_parser/RawKeyboardParser.kt
index 248d80fd4..9a9793747 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/helium314/keyboard/keyboard/internal/keyboard_parser/RawKeyboardParser.kt
+++ b/app/src/main/java/helium314/keyboard/keyboard/internal/keyboard_parser/RawKeyboardParser.kt
@@ -137,6 +137,8 @@ object RawKeyboardParser {
         KeyboardId.ELEMENT_NUMBER -> LAYOUT_NUMBER
         KeyboardId.ELEMENT_PHONE -> LAYOUT_PHONE
         KeyboardId.ELEMENT_PHONE_SYMBOLS -> LAYOUT_PHONE_SYMBOLS
+        KeyboardId.ELEMENT_EMOJI_BOTTOM_ROW -> LAYOUT_EMOJI_BOTTOM_ROW
+        KeyboardId.ELEMENT_CLIPBOARD_BOTTOM_ROW -> LAYOUT_CLIPBOARD_BOTTOM_ROW
         else -> params.mId.mSubtype.keyboardLayoutSetName.substringBeforeLast("+")
     }
 
diff --git a/app/src/main/java/helium314/keyboard/keyboard/internal/keyboard_parser/floris/TextKeyData.kt b/app/src/main/java/helium314/keyboard/keyboard/internal/keyboard_parser/floris/TextKeyData.kt
index 587fac7be..6688797df 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/helium314/keyboard/keyboard/internal/keyboard_parser/floris/TextKeyData.kt
+++ b/app/src/main/java/helium314/keyboard/keyboard/internal/keyboard_parser/floris/TextKeyData.kt
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ sealed interface KeyData : AbstractKeyData {
         }
 
         private fun getSpaceLabel(params: KeyboardParams): String =
-            if (params.mId.isAlphaOrSymbolKeyboard || params.mId.mElementId == KeyboardId.ELEMENT_CLIP_EMOJI_BOTTOM_ROW)
+            if (params.mId.isAlphaOrSymbolKeyboard || params.mId.isEmojiClipBottomRow)
                 "!icon/space_key|!code/key_space"
             else "!icon/space_key_for_number_layout|!code/key_space"