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Garth Wallace wrote on Thu, Feb 9, 2017 06:03 AM UTC:

In its latest update, the Nishiki-teki font has added a whole bunch of variant chess and fairy chess piece characters in the Private Use Area. (Don't be frightened by all the Japanese in that page, there's English too)

Nishiki-teki is a Unicode-compliant font with a wide character gamut. It is in a very informal, blocky, cartoony sans serif style, intended to be used for dialogue in a piece of Japanese software that puts a little cartoon character on your desktop that you can interact with (but can be used for documents too). It's notable for, like Quivira (which can be found in this site's font listings), taking a very "kitchen sink" approach to its Private Use Area, adding everything from fictional scripts like Tolkein's tengwar and the Klingon pIqaD to medievalist Latin letters to obscure punctuation. Its chess figurines are of the traditional detailed type (with brickwork on the rook) but adapted to a softer Japanese "manga"-style interpretation.

The new figurines are a combination of fairy chess symbols taken from my first Unicode proposal (including some that have been dropped from later revisions) and variant symbols following Quivira. I should point out, though, that the symbols that match the ones in Quivira are not located at the same code points, so the two fonts aren't interchangeable.

Maybe something to add to the list of variant chess fonts.


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