Freeware. True Type Font by Matthieu Leschemelle. The font was originally for making diagrams with Matthieu's program Problemiste, a program for solving chess problems. Armando Marroquin has since redesigned the font, and now it can be used as a "stand alone font" for diagrams and figurine notation and frame with co-ordinates is an option. View pieces.
Download Chess Cases (26 KB)
Chess Alpha2
Freeware. Peter Strickland has modified the original Chess Alpha font. The characters are now optimised for typing moves, with most characters on the keyboard. He has also added letters, numbers and punctuation, so you don't have to switch fonts when typing.
The figurine characters are now smaller, to fit on the text baseline, and have thicker
strokes, to print more clearly at the smaller size.
Download Chess Alpha2 (130 KB)
Freeware (with permission of the author). True Type Font for diagrams by Gary Katch.
A font you can't turn upside down! A new and fresh design. Read more about the font and how to get it on the author's homepage.
View the pieces.
Freeware. True Type Font by Klaus Wolf for diagrams and figurine notation. Also italic and bold.
View Chess Pirat.
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FigurineSymbol
Freeware by Armando H. Marroquin. True Type Font for figurine notation and Informator/NIC/USCF symbols.
There are two versions of the font: one based on Times New Roman and one on Swiss/Arial/sans serif, but the characters for king (K), queen (Q), rook (R), bishop (B) and knight (N) are replaced by chess pieces/figurines. You just select the game text, change the font and voilà - the game is written with figurine notation.
There are different versions for different languages:
FigurineSymbol T/S 1:
covers Croatian, Danish, English, German, Slavonic, Swedish and Yugoslavian.
FigurineSymbol T/S 2:
covers French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian and Spanish.
FigurineSymbol T/S 3:
covers Dutch, Finnish, Hungarian and Norwegian.
Figurine pieces from Chess Mérida
Download FigurineSymbol T1 (Times) (78 KB)
Download FigurineSymbol T2 (Times) (96 KB)
Download FigurineSymbol T3 (Times) (86 KB)
Figurine pieces from Chess Motif
Download FigurineSymbol S1 (sans serif) (60 KB)
Download FigurineSymbol S2 (sans serif) (73 KB)
Download FigurineSymbol S3 (sans serif) (63 KB)
MacIntosh Fonts
Some of the freeware fonts on this page have been converted for use with MacIntosh. Rolf Exner has converted:
Cheq, Chess Berlin, Chess Marroquin, Chess Maya, Smart Chess, Tasc Chess Figurine and Traveller Standard.
Download Mac Chess Fonts (244 KB) from this site.
Richard Fowell has converted Chess Alpha, Chess Condal, Chess Leipzig, Chess
Mark, Chess Medieval and Chess Motif.
Download chsfonts (300 KB)
Free True Type Font by Christoph Wirth. The font comes with the program Smart Chess (Macintosh).
View pieces.
Download Smart Regular (9 KB)