"Berlin" Figurines

[peteschaefer]

I have created a set of chess figurines to be used with LucasChess.
They are based on a free True-Type font called "Chess Berlin", which is in turn adapted from an old print design by "Sportverlag", an East German publisher with lots of high quality chess books, back in the day...

Feel free to use them.
Berlin.zip

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One Question: how can I switch the piece set?
LucasChess comes with a large number of sets, but I could not find the configuration setting.

Regards,
Peter

[peteschaefer]

Ok, I found the settings: Options/Colors/Main Board/Other Options. Somewhat of a hidden place, but well...

[lukasmonk]

Thank you very much.
To test it, you can copy the folder Berlin in Resources/Pieces.
To select it n the main board, ALT B and select Change pieces. On any board you can change the pieces, in case you want them to be different from the main one.
I need a name/alias or that you want to indicate the author.

[lukasmonk]

Right now it looks like this:

I have centred the pieces and it looks like this:

Do you think they are better now or do you prefer the initial version?

[peteschaefer]

Your centered version looks better, except that the rooks are not aligned with the knights.
Maybe just take the originals and move them a bit up and left to compensate for the shadows ?!

Would you prefer to have the shadows removed completely? The figurines then look very flat, of course.,,

[lukasmonk]

For me the shadows look good. If you want to put one set with shadows and another without, it's up to you.
It now looks like this

[peteschaefer]

nice

[peteschaefer]

Copyright info about the underlying TrueType font:

"Free for personal non commercial use. True Type Font by Eric Bentzen for diagrams and figurine notation. Based on the familiar design from the East German "Sportverlag", that published so many popular chess books."

I don't know if there is any copyright by Sportverlag. But the TT font is widely used, so I assume non-commercial copying is ok.

[lukasmonk]

Included the copyright