This is an open content Chess font with Fairy pieces added.
- A is a white upsidedown bishop
- S is a black upsidedown bishop
- D is a white rook + knight fairy piece
- F is a black rook + knight fairy piece
- G is a white upsidedown knight
- H is a black upsidedown knight
- P is a white pawn
- O (the letter) is a black pawn
- RNBQK are the expected white pieces (as per English algebraic notation)
- TMVWL are the corresponding black pieces
- A
+is an empty black square - A
Note that the mapping is (generally) compatible with Chess Merida and Armando Hernandez Marroquin’s other excellent freeware Chess fonts.
Uppercase pieces are on black squares; lowercase pieces are on white squares.
The following text looks like the starting position for Modern Carrera Chess (where an upsidedown bishop also has the knight’s move, and the piece which is a knight on top and rook on bottom is the rook + knight piece) in the font:
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$tSmVwLvMfT%
$OoOoOoOoOo%
$ + + + + +%
$+ + + + + %
$ + + + + +%
$+ + + + + %
$pPpPpPpPpP%
$RaNbQkBnDr%
/(((((((((()
Note that the font works best on a QWERTY keyboard (since the corresponding
black piece is next to the white piece; e.g. V is a black bishop where
B is a white bishop). Uppercase is a dark square; lower case is a
light square.
COPYING.mdLicense and attribution for this fontChess-start.docA document with the standard Chess starting position.OpenChessFontFairy.ttfThe font to installOpenChessFontFairy.otfThe font to install (Open type format)OpenChessFontFairy.sfdFontforge source file for fontEmbassy-Chess-start.docThe Embassy Chess starting positionGrand-Chess-start.docThe Grand Chess starting positionModern-Carrera-start.docThe Modern Carrera starting positionREADME.mdThis README fileSchoolbook-start.docThe Schoolbook chess starting position
Please read COPYING.md for full license and attribution.
Install the file OpenChessFontFairy.ttf so that it is a font one can use.
Mac users may be better off installing OpenChessFontFairy.otf.