(available at myfonts.com)
The ten chess fonts on the No-Hype Type CD make give it one of the largest variety of chess fonts that is available.
With KiddyChessFont I wanted to do a chess set in the style of a child's drawings. Some of the pieces in this set were inspired by pictures my son Matthew drew. I like this one even though it is pretty untraditional.
KnightMares is a more decorative version of the standard chess set. It was inspired by some of the distinctive pieces which appeared in some of the chess sets I saw in the books. I personally think this is the most attractive of the chess designs on this CD.
LastMinuteChess is a variation of BobsStandardChess which I did at a last minute. I had told Wayzata that I would send them some material to update FontPro 2 on a Monday, and I was busy working over the weekend getting it ready. I think it works better at small sizes than the original.
All the chess typefaces have a similar structure. The order of pieces is pawn, knight, bishop, rook, queen, and king. White pieces are on keys 0,1,2,3,4,5 and black pieces are on pieces 6,7,8,9,(semicolon),(colon). Sometimes an alternative set of white pieces are on the keys !"#$%&. (Pawn=!, knight=", etc.) Some typefaces have alternative knights and bishops. The alternative black pieces will be (). The alternative white knights will be ?@ and the alternative white bishops will be NO.
The empty white piece is on key B and the empty black space is on key A. To get a pawn on a black space, one must type in a C and then the key for the pawn. The black spaces for the knight through king are D through H. If one uses an alternative knight, the black background is <. If one uses an alternative bishop, the black background is K.
There are alternative shadings for the black squares in some fonts. The first alternative will be on Q (black space), R (white space), S through X (backgrounds for knight through king). Alternative knight and bishops backgrounds will be = and L. A second alternative, if it exists, will be on keys d through k, with the same structure as the keys Q through X or A through H. (There are a lot of possibilities, but they come at the cost of complexity. The benefit is that one font can hold a dozen different looks.)
Finally, to put a border around the chess board, use t for the top, l for the left, right for the right, and b for the bottom.