True Type chess fonts

Chess Utrecht

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More chess fonts

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• Chess Alfonso-X. Chess font, based on diagrams from famous games book of King Alfonso from Spain, 13th century.
• Chess Cases. Chess font by Matthieu Leschemelle from France.
• Chess Condal. Chess font, based on diagrams from Spanish chess books, by Armando Hernandez Marroquin from Mexico.
• Chess Harlequin. Chess font, based on diagrams from French book, by Armando Hernandez Marroquin from Mexico.
• Chess Kingdom. Chess font, based on diagrams from Latin American chess books, by Armando Hernandez Marroquin from Mexico.
• Chess Leipzig. Chess font from book from Leipzig, end of 19th century, by Armando Hernandez Marroquin from Mexico.
• Chess Line. Simple geometric chess font, by Armando Hernandez Marroquin from Mexico.
• Chess Lucena. By Armando Hernandez Marroquin from Mexico.
• Chess Magnetic. Chess font based on magnetic chess set by Armando Hernandez Marroquin from Mexico.
• Chess Marroquin. Chess font, designed by Armando Hernandez Marroquin from Mexico.
• Chess Miscel. Font with chess clip art - various symbols of use in chess newsletters, etc. Designed by Armando Hernandez Marroquin from Mexico.
• Chess Mark. Another chess font by Armando Hdez. Marroquin.
• Chess Maya. Font for creating chess diagrams for children's chess publications, with `quite traditional figures, following the design of the Staunton pieces'. By Armando Hdez. Marroquin.
• Chess Mediaeval. Chess font by Armando Hdez. Marroquin with traditional design.
• Chess Merida. Classic design chess font by Armando Hdez. Marroquin.
• Chess Millennia. Font (in two versions: lighter and darker shaded squares) with stylized piece design, `quite in tune with chess publications of the coming millennium'.
• Chess Motif. Another font by Marroquin. `Quite simple and bold'.
• The Alan Cowderoy's Chess Graphics site has a freeware chess font. (Link.)
• Another free chess font can be found at the site of Task ChessSystem. Download the file TB_TTF.ZIP. (Link.)
• Chess Montreal. Chess font where every piece looks the same when turned upside down. (Link.)

• Based on Switserland font.
  1. FigurineSymbol S1. For Croatian, Danish, English, German, Slavonic, Swedish, and Yugoslavian.
  2. FigurineSymbol S2. For French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, and Spanish.
  3. FigurineSymbol S3. For Dutch, Finnish, Hungarian and Norwegian.
• Based on Times New Roman.
  1. FigurineSymbol T1. For Croatian, Danish, English, German, Slavonic, Swedish, and Yugoslavian.
  2. FigurineSymbol T2. For French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, and Spanish.
  3. FigurineSymbol T3. For Dutch, Finnish, Hungarian and Norwegian.

Other chess publishing resources

• ffen2diag. A javascript tool to include chess (variant) diagrams on webpages.
• Alastair Scott's Chess DTP Page. This page now has moved to the Chess Variant Pages site.
• Chess Captor. Shareware program for making chess-board pictures on a PC.
• Web Chess Designer. Shareware program to make chess diagrams for the WWW.
• Chess Diagram Construction Utility. (Link.)
• Czech. Html-generator for chess (Link.)
• Chess programs, software and fonts. Page of Nørresundby Chess Club, with many pointers to chess publishing software and fonts. (Link.)
• ChessPro Html. Tool for making chess webpages.
• FFEN and FFEN-to-HTML. Extension of Forsythe Edwards Notation for chess variants, and program converting FFEN-setups to html code.
• ChessMaker. Windows 95/NT application which creates chess diagrams. (Link.)

Checkers or draughts font

I made a checkers or draughts font. This is also useful for chess variants that use checkers pieces. Rules of use, and borders are the same as for the Chess Utrecht font: see The description of Chess Utrecht. This is not sufficiently tested: let me know if it works on your machine. Also, I'm not sure this is really the correct version...

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