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Can we have figures look differently?

In some chess versions figures looked differently, for example, like elephant instead of bishop and camel and so on. is it possible to add this style if I would like to customize?
I think elephants are very heavy animals and chessboards cant support them very well. That's why we use horses instead.
i believe barabas simply meant: it would be nice to have the possibility to choose in the theming of your lichess a set of pieces in which pieces have "eastern" looks, eg. bishop would be like an elephant. it's a nice idea and there's no need to make bad jokes about the matter.
I apologize. I think Barabas would like to have different chess sets to choose from, including some oriental sets for a change. I understand some people may be tired of the Staunton design, and i support them although i think it must be a lot of work to make these features to be implemented.
its actually, very easy to pait 5 more types of shapes, its like few hours of work for 1 designer. Including research and ideas. 5 hours cost not much and can make us more fun
The alpha style pieceset can already be selected. Click on the eye icon in the top right and the alpha set is on the far left of the bottom row.
This suggestion is worth attention :). Personally I wish there would be more chess board colours ( I like changing them often :D).
The easy solution to keep everyone happy is just to allow players to manually select board colours in hex, and maybe allow uploading of custom piece png files. To prevent using a lot of memory these custom pieces could only be saved by the site if it's been used within the past week or two or else it gets deleted.

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