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🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Wed, Oct 22, 2008 09:13 AM EDT:
Fonts are better than bitmaps, because the bitmaps cannot be scaled.

Game Courier uses bitmaps and rescales them for JPG, PNG, and GIF boards.

I am not so sure about the desirability of having multi-colored pieces (on top of outline and two colors for defining the filler shading gradient). It seems to me that this would only degrade the ease of recognizing which side the pieces belong to.

I will answer this with a picture:

This picture was created by Game Courier from multi-color pieces, and it was also rescaled. The use of multiple colors allows the pieces to look more realistic. Basically, allowing multi-color images allows photographic quality pieces.