Re: Chess symbol glyphs in code charts

2015-08-14 Thread Ken Whistler
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

Re: Chess symbol glyphs in code charts

2015-08-14 Thread Garth Wallace
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

Re: Chess symbol glyphs in code charts

2015-08-14 Thread Asmus Freytag (t)
On 8/14/2015 11:50 AM, Ken Whistler 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

Chess symbol glyphs in code charts

2015-08-14 Thread Garth Wallace
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.

Re: Chess symbol glyphs in code charts

2015-08-14 Thread Hans Ã…berg
On 14 Aug 2015, at 20:31, Garth Wallace gwa...@gmail.com 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. They are quite close to Apple Symbols, but not exactly

Re: Chess symbol glyphs in code charts

2015-08-14 Thread Asmus Freytag (t)
On 8/14/2015 1:26 PM, Garth Wallace wrote: Would it be acceptable if I extracted the font from the code chart PDF Extraction of chart font is never acceptable and violates the Terms of Use. No exceptions. and used it as the