Author's note

Chess Berlin is a free chess-themed dingbat font with familiar pawns, knights, bishops, and rooks rendered as crisp, emblematic icons. The collection mixes solid silhouettes with outlined pieces backed by diagonal hatching, offering two related treatments that feel bold, orderly, graphic, and unmistakably tied to the traditional board.

It suits both chess-club merchandise and editorial puzzle pages. On tournament posters, game packaging, and teaching materials, the repeated piece profiles make the subject instantly and consistently clear, and the contrast between filled icons and striped outline versions can turn notation, section markers, or decorative borders into part of the chess motif.

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Basic font information

Font family
Chess Berlin
Font subfamily
Regular
Unique subfamily identification
Chess Berlin
Full font name
Chess Berlin

Extended font information

Platforms supported

PlatformEncoding
MacintoshRoman
MicrosoftSymbol

Font details

Glyph count113
Units per Em2048
Embedding rightsEmbedding for permanent installation
Family classSymbolic
WeightMedium (normal)
WidthMedium (normal)
Mac styleBold
DirectionOnly strongly left to right glyphs
Pattern natureRegular