Chess font tester Internal font:

♚♛♜♝♞♟♔♕♖♗♘♙

Font loaded from https://fontlibrary.org/face/chess

♚♛♜♝♞♟♔♕♖♗♘♙

You can type those figures using usual ASCII characters (p=pawn, q=queen etc)

    PpNnQqKkRrLl 
        
Use them in table, canvas or svg.
    
    r n l q
        k l n r
    
    p p p p
        p p p p
    
    0 0 0 0
        0 0 0 0
    
    0 0 0 0
        0 0 0 0
         
    0 0 0 0
        0 0 0 0
         
    0 0 0 0
        0 0 0 0
          
    P P P P
        P P P P
    
    R N L Q
        K L N R
    
    
    
For those who do not want to waste time with user interface
and just want to display the current position, try
the following trick (it is a single string, without
any css trick except font selection):

 abcdefgh 
8u}vzs|w{(
7~x~x~x~x'      
60@0@0@0@&       
5@0@0@0@0%
40@0@0@0@$        
3@0@0@0@0#
2X^X^X^X^"
1[W\TYV]U!
 ABCDEFGH


Of course, some conversions are needed. See following tables for font codes:

Table border

Chess font helper