Author: Tim Mirabile
Date: 15:32:16 01/08/00
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Hmmm. I got these fonts, also used by Crafty, at Bob Hyatt's suggestion ( http://www.icdchess.com/ccc/message.html?86370 ). I took only the pieces on the white squares, reduced the color depth to 16 colors (15 colors + 1 transparent), and made the background transparent. I actually have a copy of the Alpine fonts at the store (not mine - possibly sent to the store as a sample), but I deliberately did not use them because they are commercial. Here is the readme file which came with the piece gifs: ===== This directory provides bitmaps with the same size and naming conventions as those distributed till xboard-3.** These bitmaps are distributed under the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE coming with xboard. The bitmaps contained herein were converted from my MetaFont version of chess font. These are designed very well to deliver good rastered images on low resolution devices. The general shape of these fonts are designed after very old typefaces used in printing chess books. They are not as fancy as the currently used bitmaps of xboard, but I like them in their 'san serif'-ness - may be others too. The MetaFont source of this font may be obtained from me under the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE. To convert the pk-Files to bitmaps I used the conversion tool mftobdf to generate X11-bdf - fonts, and then used a small C program, to write the xbm-files. 5.Feb.1994 Elmar Bartel bartel@informatik.tu-muenchen.de * * * The 21-pixel bitmaps are also based on Elmar's font, but I hand-tuned them quite a bit. I converted them from the Metafont gf file by running gftype and applying a C program of my own to the human-readable output. icon_white and icon_black were produced in the same way. 21 Nov 1995 Tim Mann * * * I took the x40x.bm files from Tim's Xboard/bitmap distribution and modified them so as to have the light and dark colored square pieces (dark squares have the cross-hatching found in most chess books). Added empty squares. The naming convention for the bitmaps is almost obvious. The first character is the color of the square, the second is the color of the piece, and the third is the piece abbreviation (english bias: p, r, n, b, q, k). The blank squares are the only exception, they are simply wsq.bm and bsq.bm. 6 Sep 1997 George Barrett grbarret@eecs.umich.edu =====
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