Would it be acceptable if I extracted the font from the code chart PDF and used it as the basis for one in a proposal I'm working on? The proposal covers rotated and half-black half-white chess symbols, which should match the shapes of the existing ones, and compound symbols, which should harmonize.
On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 11:50 AM, Ken Whistler <[email protected]> wrote: > Garth, > > The glyphs for the chess symbols in the 26XX block date from > Unicode 3.0. Most of the symbols redesigned for the Unicode 3.0 > charts were done by John M. Fiscella. (See the font acknowledgements > on p. iv of Unicode 3.0.) I do not know which predecessor designs > Fiscella might ultimately have based his designs on. > > The *actual* font used in the chart production is some in house > chart font, possibly tweaked over the years for various specific > glyphs, although it doesn't appear to me on first inspection that > any of the chess symbol glyphs per se have had any workover since the > Unicode 3.0 publication. The chart fonts are in house, used with > special licenses specific to Unicode chart production, and with all > sorts of chart-specific quirks. So even if I did attempt to track down > specifically which font was involved for the current Unicode 26XX > block for the 2654..265F range of glyphs, knowing that wouldn't > actually help much for your question, I think. > > --Ken > > > On 8/14/2015 11:31 AM, Garth Wallace wrote: >> >> Can anyone tell me what font is used for the chess symbols in the code >> chart for the Miscellaneous Symbols block? It looks a lot like Chess >> Merida but I can't be certain. >> >
