Adrian Millett

Adrian Millett of PC Solutions made the checkers font CheckerPCS (1995). [Google]

Alexander Sizenko

Russian creator of the free chess font Chess 7 (2008) and the free LED display font Digital-7 (2008). [Google]

Alpine Fonts
[Steve Smith]

Chess fonts and other game fonts at this company in Laramie, WY. "The Alpine Fonts, by Steve Smith, are supplied as three sets with different designs (Hastings, Linares or Zürich) containing 17 TrueType or Adobe Type 1 fonts in each set. They are specially supported by my macros." Commercial site. 29USD per font. You may find checkers, shogi, ChiangQi, Copenhagen Othello, Las Vegas dice and domino fonts, Monte Carlo backgammon font, Canton Mah Jong font, Tokyo go font, Chess fonts: Linares, Hastings, Zurich. Bermuda playing card font. [Google]

Altemus Creative
[Robert Altemus]

Altemus Creative Services sells dingbat fonts by Robert Altemus from New York, NY: Your premiere source for digital decorative fonts. Their commercial dingbats are sold by MyFonts. Partial list: AltemusBirds, AltemusBorders 1 through 4 (1992; Borders 4 containss pointing hands and flourishes), AltemusBursts 1 through 4, Altemus Bursts Two (2002, contains snowflakes), AltemusChecks, AltemusChecksTwo, AltemusCorners, AltemusCrosses, AltemusCuts, AltemusCutsThree, AltemusCutsTwo, AltemusFlowers, AltemusHands, AltemusHolidaysOne, AltemusKitchen, AltemusPinwheels, AltemusPointers, AltemusRays, AltemusRaysBold, AltemusRoughcuts, AltemusRounds, AltemusRules, AltemusSecurity, AltemusShields, AltemusSpirals, AltemusSpiralsBold, AltemusSpiralsBoldItalic, AltemusSpiralsItalic, AltemusSquares, AltemusStars 1 through 3, AltemusSuns, AltemusSunsBold, AltemusToolKit (2 fonts), Altemus Web Icons, EuropaArabesque, Games (cards, domino), Games 2 (mahjong, chess), Sports (balls), Sports 2, Leaves 1 and 2. [Google]

Andy Walker

Designer at the Department of Mathematics, University of Nottingham of the GNU chess font, to be used with "gnuchess". [Google]

Armando Hernández Marroquín

Mexican designer of the TrueType fonts Chess Alfonso-X, Chess Chess Harlequin, Condal, Chess Leipzig, Chess Kingdom, Chess Magnetic, Chess Mark, Chess Marroquin, Chess Maya, Chess Mediaeval, Chess Merida, Chess Millennia, Chess Miscel, Chess Motif, Chess Usual. All freeware. Also made the free PostScript font set FigurineSymbol (6 faces) for use in text. Armando lives in San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas. [Google]

Association for Insight Meditation
[Bhikkhu Pesala]

On this site dedicated to Pali fonts, we find Bhikkhu Pesala's free fonts created in 2006: Carita-Bold, Carita, Garava-BoldItalic, Garava-Bold, GaravaHeavy, Garava-Italic, Garava, GaravaSmallCaps-Bold, GaravaSmallCaps, Guru-BoldItalic, Guru-Bold, Guru-Italic, Guru, Odana, Veluvana, Verajja-Bold, Verajja-Italic, Verajja, Verajja-BoldItalic. The Pali fonts all have over 1400 Latin characters with diacritics including those needed for Sanskrit and Pali transcriptions. They cover Latin, Vietnamese, chess symbols, and astrological signs. [Google]

BDFchess

BDFCHESS is a package of additional macros to CHESS.STY 1.2, writen by Piet Tutelaers, for correspondence chess players. To be used with Piet Tutelaers' metafont chess fonts. [Google]

Brent

Chess font archive: ChessAdventurer, ChessCases, ChessPiece, Chess-Condal, Chess-Harlequin, Chess-Kingdom, Chess-Leipzig, Chess-Line, Chess-Mark, Chess-Marroquin, Chess-Maya, Chess-Merida, Chess-Motif, Traveller-Standard, Chess-Utrecht. [Google]

Cerdanyola

BibleScrT (URW, 1994), SPTimeFig-Bold, SPTimeFig-Roman. The last two fonts are for chess, and were made in 1998 by SoftPlus Co, Sofia, Bulgaria. [Google]

Chess diagrams
[Eric Bentzen]

Eric Bentzen has links to chess diagram software, and to about twenty chess fonts. THE site for chess fonts! Download Chess Alpha (by Eric Bentzen), Chess Berlin (by Eric Bentzen), and many more TrueType chess fonts. Alternate URL. [Google]

Chess fonts

Anders Thulin explains where to get several chess fonts. [Google]

Chess Graphics
[Alan Cowderoy]

Traveller Standard is a free TrueType chess font by Alan Cowderoy. Download. [Google]

Chess group at the University of Pittsburgh

Archive of many chess fonts, like the Utrecht font and several of Marroquin's fonts. Mirror. [Google]

Chess Materials Desktop Publishing

Many free chess fonts, including Chess-Magnetic, Chess-Mark, Chess-Marroquin, Chess-Maya, Chess-Millennia-D, Chess-Millennia-L, Chess-Miscel, Chess-Mediaeval, Tilburg3 (by Chessworks Unlimited), Skak, Chess-Utrecht. [Google]

Chess metafonts
[Piet Tutelaers]

Chess package for TEX with metafonts by Piet Tutelaers. See also here. Developed by Piet Tutelaers at Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands. [Google]

Chess Ole!
[Frank David]

This German chess site has the following chess truetype fonts: Cheq, CheqFig, ChessOle!, ChessOle!Figurin. The latter two fonts are made by Frank David from Göttingen in 1993. [Google]

Chess sets for Fixation for Macintosh

William I. Johnston's page on bitmap chess sets. [Google]

Chess Word Macros and Fonts
[Alastair Scott]

Alastair Scott designed the freeware Chess Regular in TrueType. Site contain many freeware fonts, and chess-related links. Page now mmaintained by Hans Bodlaender. [Google]

ChessBase
[Rolf Schlösser]

ChessBase GmbH is based in Germany and is run by Rolf Schlösser. He made these chess fonts in 1994: DiagramTTCrystals, DiagramTTHabsburg, FigurineCrrCBBoldItalic, FigurineCrrCBBold, FigurineCrrCBItalic (monospace font), FigurineHlvCrys-BoldItalic, FigurineHlvCrys-Bold, FigurineHlvCrys-Italic, FigurineHlvCrys, FigurineHlvHabs-BoldItalic, FigurineHlvHabs-Bold, FigurineHlvHabs-Italic, FigurineHlvHabs, FigurineTmsCBBoldItalic, FigurineTmsCBBold, FigurineTmsCBItalic, FigurineTmsCB, FigurineTmsHabs-BoldItalic, FigurineTmsHabs-Bold, FigurineTmsHabs-Italic, FigurineTmsHabs. The Figurine series provide text fonts with appropriate chess glyphs added on. Some of these fonts are at certain sites on the web. For example, Diagram Chessbase has DiagramTTCrystals, DiagramTTFritz, DiagramTTHabsburg, DiagramTTBlindAll, DiagramTTBlindBlack, DiagramTTBlindwhite. Of these, DiagramTTFritz (1999) is by Monika Berger, and DiagramTTCrystals (1994) and DiagramTTHabsburg (1994) are by Rolf Schlösser. And UNF Chess Club has FigurineTmsCB, FigurineTmsCBBold, FigurineTmsCBBoldItalic, FigurineTmsCBItalic. [Google]

Chessman

Zurich Jaxboard font comes with Chessman. Free on Jack Woodbury's page. [Google]

Chessmaster

Has a TrueType font built in. [Google]

Chinese chess font
[Jacques Richer]

Chinese chess metafont by Jacques Richer. [Google]

Christian Poisson

Designed a free TrueType chess font for "fairy" chess called 1Echecs. His font 2Echecs (1996) is here. [Google]

Convekta

Three chess fonts: ISDiagram (font from Chess Assistant, 1994, InformSystems, Russia), CA-Chess (chess font, with Latin and Cyrillic characters thrown in, 1997, ParaGraph), CADiagram (font from Chess Assistant, 2001, InformSystems, Russia). Another URL. Convekta also markets Chess Assistant, chess software. [Google]

Czcionki Szachowe

Polish chess font archive. [Google]

Egon Madsen

Designed the free PostScript chess font Skak. Link temporarliy moved here. [Google]

EN PASSANT - Nørresundby Chess Club

Eric Bentzen's chess link page, with links to chess fonts. Download page. Chess font link page. [Google]

EVCOMP

Czech computer chess jump page, with a few links to font sites. [Google]

Exotic dingbat fonts

Small archive. Has Cheq (truetype), African Ornaments One (Dixie's Delights, 1994). [Google]

Frank Hassel

Designer of the metafont chess font Chess. [Google]

Gary Katch

Montrealer Gary Katch designed a beautiful symmetric (up=down) chess font called Chess Montreal. Truetype, shareware. [Google]

Hanna Kolodziejska

Designer of the metafont Go, for the game of Go. [Google]

John S. Renner

Designer of Cheq (chess font at Adobe, 1989), ITC Stone Sans (with Sumner Stone in 1988), ITC Stone Serif. Free version of the Cheq font at MIT. [Google]

K's Bookshelf
[Yoshio Kobayashi]

K's bookshelf has great free fonts made by Yoshio Kobayashi: WeatherJ (2001, Japanese Weather Chart Symbols), RoadSignJ (2001, Japanese road sign symbols), Shogi (2001, Japanese Shogi pieces), and Elements Kanji. [Google]

LaTeX Navigator
[Denis Roegel]

General links on typography and fonts, compiled by Denis Roegel (with earlier contributions by Karl Tombre who is no longer involved). Very, very useful. This page contains, among other things:

• METAFONT for Beginners (Geoffrey Tobin)
• The METAFONT book (TeX source) (Donald E. Knuth)
• How to Create Your Own Symbols in METAFONT and for use in LaTeX Documents (Richard Lin)
• Milieu -- METAFONT and Linux: A Personal Computing Milieu (Thomas Dunbar)
• Simple drawings with METAFONT (Zdenek Wagner)
• Some METAFONT Techniques (article from TUGboat, 10 pages) (Yannis Haralambous)
• List of all available Metafont fonts
• Liam Quin's Metafont Guide (last version)
• MetaFog: Converting METAFONT Shapes to Contours (Richard J. Kinch)
• METAFONT source
• Design of a new font family (slides) (Gerd Neugebauer) (1996)
• PERL Module for reading .tfm files (Jan Pazdziora) (1997)
• fig2mf (UNIX manual) (Anthony Starks)
• bm2font (Friedhelm Sowa)
• Essay on math symbols by Paul Taylor
• drgen genealogical symbol font by Denis Roegel, 1996
• Chess fonts
• The Marvosym Font Package (Martin Vogels)
• Eurosymbol, another font for the euro symbol
• Lots of stuff on virtual fonts
• P. Damian Cugley's Malvern (Greek) font
• Yannis Haralambous's Omega project
• DC and EC fonts by Joerg Knappen
• Technical notes on Postscript fonts, and Postscript fonts in TEX
• Computer Modern type 1 fonts
• Articles on computer typography by Sebastian Rahtz, Aarno Hohti & Okko Kanerva, Richard J. Kinch, Basil K. Malyshev, Hirotsugu Kakugawa, Karl Berry, Victor Eijkhout, Vincent Zoonekynd, Tom Scavo, David Wright, Erik-Jan Vens, and Nelson H. F. Beebe.
• Articles on mathematical symbol fonts
• Links to essential pages for Cyrillic, Japanese, Berber, Khmer, Chinese, Korean, Greek, Indic, Syriac, Hebrew, Hieroglyphic, Tibetan, Mongolian, African fc

Macware Font

Mac font archive. Has some Japanese fonts: ASLFont+ (by Hiroo Yamada), Kagurazaka12a (by Keitarou Hiraki), Makuhari and Narita (by Tosiaki Oorui), Setsugetsuka (by Emuxu), Youxi (by Tomohiro Sudo). There are many fonts by Marty Pfeiffer, and a Mac Chess font by Rolf Exner. [Google]

MatPlus

MatPlus is chess problem library. It comes with two TrueType fonts: MatPlusTextRc contains specific chess-oriented glyphs including chess pieces logos, and MatPlusDiagramRc is used for drawing the diagrams. [Google]

Matthieu Leschemelle

Designer of the chess font Chess Cases. Alternate URL. [Google]

Merel

Three TrueType chess font sets. Commercial site. [Google]

Page Studio Graphics (or: Pixymbols)
[Roger Vershen]

Page Studio Graphics is Roger Vershen's Oro Valley, AZ-based company specializing in symbols and symbol fonts, founded by him in 1986. The fonts (grouped under the name PIXymbols) include ADA symbols v.2.0, Africa, Alphabox, Alphacircle, Ameslan (ASL), Antorff (fraktur), Antorff Fractions, Apothecary, Arrows, Astrology, Backstitich, Boxkey, BoxNLines, Braille grade 2, Casual, Chalk Casual, PIXymbols Chess, Command Key, Courex, Crossword, Digit&Clocks, Dingbats&Online, DOSScreen, Fabric Care, FARmarks (Federal Aviation Regulations lettering), Flagman (semaphore), Fractions, Gridmaker, Highway Gothic (U.S. Department of Transportation's Standard Alphabets for Highway Signs), PIXymbols Highway Gothic 2002, Highway Signs (U.S. Department of Transportation), Hospital&Safety, LCD, Luna, Malkoff (calligraphic font), Marina, Meeting, Menufonts, Morse, Musica (instruments), Newsdots, Orchestra, Passkey, Patchwork, PCx, Phone, PIXymbolsMusica, PrimerD (letters with lines), Recycle, Roadsigns, Shadowkey, Signet (family), Squared, Strings, Stylekey, Tolerances&Datum, Travel&Hotel, TV List, Unikey, US Map, Xcharting, Xstitch. They also sell EPS files of all Arms of Swiss cantons, and many nice initial caps. Look also for Faux Hebrew (simulated Hebrew), as part of the Faux package that also includes Faux Sanskrit, Faux Runic, Faux Hebrew, Faux Japanese, Faux Arabic, Faux Chinese and Faux Chinese Sans. Alternate URL. Previews at MyFonts. [Google]

Paul van der Laan

Dutch designer at Enschedé, born in 1972. He studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague where he graduated in 1997, and again in 2000, the second time with a postgraduate degree in typography. Second prize at the 3rd International Digital Type Design Contest by Linotype Library for Linotype Rezident. At Kombinat Typefounders, he designed Feisar (1999), a futuristic display face which has been extended to the multiline Feiar Express in 2008, about which he writes: Feisar Express could be called a retro-futuristic inline script typeface family. He also made Flex (1999-2000, a sans family, done for Bold Monday) and Sambasko (1998). At his company Type Invaders, he leads us through the development of the pixel font Outbox (2000). At the Enschedé Font Foundry, he is (part-time) involved in font production and maintenance of the website. At Typotheque, he created the chess figurines (2003) to match Bilak's Fedra Sans Alt for the German Chess publisher Schachzentrale Rattmann. In 2009, he and Pieter van Rosmalen created Audi Type (via MetaDesign), which replaces the old Univers-based Audi Sans. [Google]

Peter Specht

Designer who created the pixel grid face z001-rom (2008), Elektrogothic (2008, futuristic), Laurier Test (2009, serifed), Laurier No. 7 (2009, an extensive Unicode face that covers Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, most Indic languages, Thai, Hebrew, Lao, Tibetan, runic, Khmer, and mathematical, chess and other symbols), Kinryu No. 8 Regular (2009, an extension of Laurier towards Japanese), Clucky Duck (2008, rounded), and the double-scratch handwriting face Wild Freak (2008). [Google]

Richard A. Fowell

Creator of some bitmap chess sets. These are used in MacChess. See also here. [Google]

Science Technology Centre Font Page
[Douglas Wong]

Free TrueType chess font ChessDW. And CU-SYMBOL is another dingbat font with Canadian symbols, chess figurines, icons and Carleton University symbols. All developed by Douglas Wong. Alternate site. [Google]

Sergey Skrebnev

Designer of Chessmaster (2005), a free OpenType chess font. [Google]

sgf2tex

Free Go software for printing go games in TEX. Includes Go metafonts developed by Daniel Bump and Reid Augustin. [Google]

skak
[Torben Hoffmann]

Metafont chess fonts called "skak". Part of the skak package developed by Dane Torben Hoffmann in 2000. See also here. In 2002, several symbols were added by Dirk Baechle. [Google]

Skak New
[Ulrich Dirr]

Skak is a chess font originally developed by Torben Hoffmann & Dirk Bächle. Skak New (2003, by Ulrich Dirr) combines features of Skak and the "chess" font of Piet Tutelaers. It includes the free type 1 fonts ChessAlphaDiagram, SkakNew-Diagram, SkakNew-Diagram2, SkakNew-Figurine-Bold, SkakNew-Figurine, skakf10. Alternate URL. [Google]

Smart Chess
[Harry Oesch]

Harry Oesch designed a free TrueType chess font that comes with SmartChess. Old link. [Google]

SPSL
[Igor Nastenko]

SPSL is a Russian foundry, offering mostly fonts made by Igor Nastenko. These include Brush (1990, based E. Shaar and S. Hess's Flash No. 373), Chess, Circles, Clarendon (1990, based on H. Eidenbenz's Clarendon of 1953), Elegant (1996, based on Middleton's Coronet), Garland (1996, based on F. Scott Garland's font Enviro done at Letraset in 1982, GeomSlabSerif (1996, a Cyrillic extension of Frutiger's face), Hair-V, Hill, Keys, Old King (1995; based on B. Wolpe's Albertus, 1936, Profont, Ribbon, Russia, Russia-Church, Russian Ornament1, Russian Ornament2, Russian Souvenir, New Serif Condensed (1996, based on Gerry Powell's Arsis from 1937, now an Elsner&Flake font), New Skoryna (1993, now at Paratype), SOS (Morse coding), SQ2, Swordsman (1990, based on Clarendon Condensed), Ustav II (1996). [Google]

Studio 2G

Shino made several Japanese kanji handwriting fonts, including Moon-font-PRO, Moonfont, S2G-love, S2Gmemo, Sea-font-pro, Sea-font, moon-font-PRO, moon-font, nagurigaki-P, nagurigaki, seafont, uni-font-PRO, uni-font. The uni-font series is quite remarkable as it covers most of the Unicode spectrum (besides Japanese, also Cyrillic, Greek, many dingbats, astrological symbols, chess symbols, the works). Alternate URL. Alternate URL. [Google]

Tasc Chess Figurine font

The Tasc Chess Figurine font can be freely downloaded here. [Google]

Tasc ChessSystem

Free chess font, TB_TTF. [Google]

Tilburg Laserfonts
[Eric Schiller]

Tilburg Laserfonts has a commercial set of TT and PostScript fonts designed by Eric Schiller and Bill Cone. Eric Schiller (Chicago, IL) designed the sans face Sapir (1991) and Hilversum (Mac only). Alternate URL. [Google]

True Type chess fonts
[Hans Bodlaender]

Hans Bodlaender's chess font archive: very useful! It includes many fonts by Armando Hernandez Marroquin (Figurine Symbol fonts, Chess-Alfonso-X, ChessAdventurer, Chess-Condal, Chess-Harlequin, Chess-Kingdom, Chess-Leipzig, Chess-Line, ChessLucena, Chess-Magnetic, Chess-Mark, Chess-Marroquin, Chess-Maya, Chess-Merida, Chess-Millennia-D, Chess-Millennia-L, Chess-Miscel, Chess-Motif, Chess-Mediaeval), Chess Utrecht (by Hans Bodlaender), Chess Cases (by Matthieu Leschemelle), Chess Montreal, the Checkers or Draughts font by Hans Bodlaender (b. 1960, Bennekom, the Netherlands). Many links to chess board generating filters. [Google]

Unicode Fonts for Ancient Scripts
[George Douros]

This is a fantastic source of free high-quality fonts for scripts of the greater Aegean vicinity, Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Meroitic, Sumero-Akkadian Cuneiform, Musical Symbols and all Symbol Blocks in the Unicode Standard. George Douros is their Greek font designer. His free fonts come with this exemplary footnote: In lieu of a licence: Fonts in this site are offered free for any use; they may be opened, edited, modified, regenerated, posted, packaged and redistributed. Here is the list:

• Aegean (2007). Covers Basic Latin, Greek and Coptic, Greek Extended, some Punctuation and other Symbols, Linear B Syllabary, Linear B Ideograms, Aegean Numbers, Ancient Greek Numbers, Ancient Symbols, Phaistos Disc, Lycian, Carian, Old Italic, Ugaritic, Old Persian, Cypriot Syllabary, Phoenician, Lydian, Archaic Greek Musical Notation. Other things in it: Linear A, Cretan Hieroglyphs, Cypro-Minoan, Ancient Greek Alphabets, Phrygian, Old Italic Alphabets (Cumaean, Archaic Etruscan, Neo Etruscan, Ancient Latin, Lugano, Faliscan, Marsiliana, Messapic, Middle Adriatic South Picene, North Picene, Oscan, Umbrian), the Arkalochori Axe and Anatolian Hieroglyphs.
• Aegyptus (2007). Over 7000 hieroglyphs. In addition, we have Basic Latin, Greek and Coptic, Egyptian Transliteration characters, some Punctuation and other Symbols.
• Akkadian (2007). Basic Latin, Greek and Coptic, some Punctuation and other Symbols, Ugaritic, Cuneiform, Cuneiform Numbers and Punctuation.
• Alexander (2007, text typeface built around the Greek letters originally designed by Alexander Wilson in 1744; compare with Wilson Greek (1996, Matthew Carter) and Junicode (2006, Peter S. Baker)). The Latin and Cyrillic parts are based on Garamond.
• Analecta (2007, Byzantine style). An ecclesiastic scripts font, in Byzantine uncial style, covering Basic Latin, Greek and Coptic, some Punctuation and other Symbols, Coptic, typographica varia, Specials, Gothic and Deseret.
• MusicalSymbols (2007). Basic Latin, Greek and Coptic, some Punctuation and other Symbols, Byzantine Musical Symbols, (Western) Musical Symbols, Archaic Greek Musical Notation.
• UnicodeSymbols (2007, in the Computer Modern style). It has every imaginable symbol: Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, Latin Extended-A, IPA Extensions, Greek, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Supplementary, General Punctuation, Superscripts and Subscripts, Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols, Letterlike Symbols, Number Forms, Arrows, Mathematical Operators, Miscellaneous Technical, Control Pictures, Optical Character Recognition, Box Drawing, Block Elements, Geometric Shapes, Miscellaneous Symbols, Dingbats, Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A, Supplemental Arrows-A, Supplemental Arrows-B, Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B, Supplemental Mathematical Operators, Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows, CJK Symbols and Punctuation, Yijing Hexagram Symbols, Vertical Forms, Combining Half Marks, CJK Compatibility Forms, Specials, Tai Xuan Jing Symbols, Counting Rod Numerals, Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols, Mahjong Tile Symbols, Domino Tile Symbols.

xq
[Stephan Weinhold]

A set of free metafonts by Stephan Weinhold made in 2006 for Chinese chess. No type 1 or truetype versions yet. [Google]

Y.Oz Vox
[Yoichi Ozaki]

Yoichi Ozaki runs Y.Oz Vox. He is the designer of H.OzFont, H.OzFontP, Y.OzFontKA, Y.OzFontKG, Y.OzFontNJ, Y.OzFontNL, Y.OzFontK, Y.OzFontM, YOzFont14s, YOzFont5x7d, YOzFontOTW, YOzFontOTWD, YOzFontOTWL, H.OzFontB, Y.OzFontUIB, Y.OzFontPB, Y.OzFontUI, Y.OzFont, Y.OzFontB, Y.OzFontP. These are highly interesting fonts, mostly consisting of handwritten or printed letters covering Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, most mathematical symbols, most standard dingbats, the chess pieces, kana, and kanji. They are all free, and cover all platforms. Download page. Yet another URL. Still another URL, where one can find YOzFontAP04-Bold. Recently reorganized, the fonts are now grouped in packs: Pen-Ji, Mouhitsu (brush in Gyosho, Gyosho Old Style and Kaisho styles), Eibun (Latin). [Google]