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🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Tue, Mar 5 08:11 PM UTC in reply to Jean-Louis Cazaux from 07:30 PM:

the colors are fantastic

Thanks. The colors have gotten to the point where I am more comfortable writing this comment in Dark mode.

I don't think it carries the image I mentally attach to this site that I follow for more than 25 years now. Well, it's a matter of taste and I would like to see what other people think.

Indeed. I will bear in mind the story of the man, the boy, and the donkey. It can be hard to avoid naysayers whatever I do, but it doesn't mean I have to let them tell me what to do.

The frog and the fairy are cute but there are more figurines that we could find in any Toys'r'us store than bearing a chess character.

The Toys'r'us where I live is permanently closed, and these are AI-generated art, not photos of toys.

There are 3D pieces around. Musketeer chess for example.

Yes, the logo for the Light color scheme already uses them.

Or we are several people designing Staunton-like 3D pieces for printing. Importing a .stl into Meshmixer we could make very nice 2D images.

Those are suitable for going on individual Piececlopedia pages if someone would like to take charge of that. I'm not the one to do that, since I don't have a 3D printer or know anything about the image formats.

For the line of symbols, I think it is a good idea to have the line with the 6 characters on the top.

Chess pieces are on the top, because the word CHESS is above the word VARIANT, and the variant pieces are down below with the word VARIANT. If this site was called The Variant Chess Pages, then the variant pieces would be on top.

But on the bottom, too bad that we don't have a true xiangqi piece, a true shogi piece , maybe a janggi one, along with some of the selected ones you have put.

By true, I assume you mean traditional. The Shogi pieces should stay in the Motif style, because the images used for the Gold and Silver Generals also symbolize the sun and the moon, so that the sun symbol appears with the Light scheme, and the moon symbol appears with the Dark scheme. I am more flexible on others, though in no hurry to change them.


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