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Material Design icons by Google (Material Symbols)
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Icon request: Chess pieces #1420

Open kirillbobyrev opened 2 years ago

kirillbobyrev commented 2 years ago

With the growing online chess popularity, it makes sense to add chess icons to the set.

Here's an example of wonderful icons FontAwesome has: https://fontawesome.com/search?q=chess&o=r

tphinney commented 2 years ago

Great idea! That would be a lot of icons, though! Interesting question whether we would make separate icons for black and white pieces, or we just rely on fill variation. Probably separate, though.

kirillbobyrev commented 2 years ago

Yes, every piece would probably be a lot.

I think few generic ones (e.g. chess board or some of the most recognizable ones - probably the knight/rook) would be a good start!

But, of course, all the pieces are interesting, too.

tphinney commented 2 years ago

Well, that leads to questions about the use case(s) for the icons. What is/are the purposes? Just to broadly represent chess? To be able to use in a full representation of the game, whether for narrative or even an interface to play?

kirillbobyrev commented 2 years ago

The goal I had in mind is to broadly represent chess, yes.

But you're right, I think some fonts' chess pieces are just used in some applications that implement the game of chess, which is also useful (but I'd argue less so).