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Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
pixelambacht@typo.social ("Roel Nieskens") wrote:

FENwright, a FEN-to-Chessboard font, is a very clever font that turns a Forsyth-Edwards Notation of chessboard pieces into a real chessboard! (Well, a digital one on your screen)

I like that the font is just an 8 kilobyte WOFF2!

Try it out here: https://philatype.github.io/fenwright/

Or read about how it was made: https://medium.com/@kosalsen/how-i-built-a-chess-rendering-engine-inside-an-opentype-font-27e4a4d520e7

#typography #chess

A chessboard in "Queen's gambit declined" formation, with above it a character sequence that represents it