Webfont Chess Mérida

This is a web font WOFF2 version of the TrueType Font "Chess Mérida", created by Armando Hernandez Marroquin.

You will find the original data (12-AUG-1998) on Eric Bentzen's page Chess Fonts.

Chess Mérida
Freeware.
True Type Font by Armando H. Marroquin for 
diagrams and figurine notation.
A classic font named after the city Mérida on Yacatan.
Frame with co-ordinates possible.

Chess Mérida pieces:

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Download merid_tt.zip (27 KB)

Data in this Repository

• css
  • chessmerida.css
• docs
  • ChessMerida.docx
  • ChessMerida.odt
  • ChessMerida.pdf
  • ChessMerida.rtf
  • README.txt
• fonts
  • ChessMerida.ttf
  • ChessMerida.woff2
• images
  • cc-by_88x31.png
  • ChessMerida-Keymap.jpg
  • ChessMerida_Pieces.jpg
  • initialposition.jpg
• merid_tt
  • merid_tt.zip
  • CHESMERI.DOC
  • LEEME__D.TXT
  • MERIFONT.TTF
  • README_D.TXT
• samples
  • initialposition.html

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You will find the current version in my GitHub repository
maroph/chess-merida-webfont

Chess Mérida Keymap

                White Square    Dark Square
Empty Square         [space]        +
White Pawn           p              P
Black Pawn           o              O
White Knight         n              N
Black Knight         m              M
White Bishop         b              B
Black Bishop         v              V
White Rook           r              R
Black Rook           t              T
White Queen          q              Q
Black Queen          w              W
White King           k              K
Black King           l              L

You will find the complete keymap in the file docs/ChessMerida.pdf, or in the file images/ChessMerida-Keymap.png:

Sample

This HTML code

<div class="fcm">tMvWlVmT
OoOoOoOo
 + + + +
+ + + +
 + + + +
+ + + +
pPpPpPpP
RnBqKbNr</div>

creates the following output in a browser

Changes to the original Data

The original data are located in the directory merid_tt.

merid_tt/CHESMERI.DOC

I converted this file to the file docs/ChessMerida.docx with the tool Convertio. In Word I converted this file to the files
docs/ChessMerida.odt, docs/ChessMerida.pdf (with embedded fonts) and docs/ChessMerida.rtf.

merid_tt/MERIFONT.TTF

I copied the file merid_tt/MERIFONT.TTF to fonts/ChessMerida.ttf. I converted this file to the file fonts/ChessMerida.woff2 with the tool TTF to WOFF2 Converter.

merid_tt/README_D.TXT

I copied the file _merrid_tt/README_D.TXT to docs/Readme.txt and changed the Charset to UTF-8.

Kudos

• Armando Hernandez Marroquin for creating this font.
• This work is inspired by the GitHub repository vasiliyaltunin/chess-merida-font.