The white color of the cross stands out too much

I don't know why we keep updating piece sets that have been fine for years for seemingly no value...

Several users of the piece set are upset with the recent decision:
https://lichess.org/forum/lichess-feedback/maestro-black-bishops

I am the OP of the thread. I would repeat here my point that the initial criticism of the piece set is strange: the Bishops are diamond-shaped while the pawns are rounded. More generally, I echo the previous comment's concern about "updating" (read: messing with) piece sets that have been fine for years.

@kraktus @BiscuitFiend2592

Thanks for linking the thread.

I've tried darkening the cross here:

Before:

After:

Does that solve the issue? Is it dark enough now, should it be darker, or should I just revert the change entirely?

I think that change makes it dark enough that the contrast isn't distracting, but I also think the piece set still looks a lot less aesthetically pleasing than it did originally. My reason is that nothing else in the design of the Black pieces uses that colour. Personally, I maintain that the Bishops were visually distinct enough from the Pawns as they were originally.

I recognize that others, including yourself, might disagree, but it does appear that many people were using maestro just fine before this change. In other words, it might be the case that a bunch of people disagree with my opinion, but it is quite likely that a bunch of people agree with me; I don't know how easily it can be looked up how many users use each piece set, but absent that data I would have to guess that quite a lot of people have been using maestro for years before this change.

I don't really have any practical suggestions as to how to resolve that disagreement in opinion. Unless you can point to a bunch of other people complaining about this same issue with this same piece set, I have to stand by my position that it would be better not to try to fix something that wasn't previously considered broken.

(Since as far as I know we're both just random lichess users, and it feels weird for this extremely low-stakes conversation to determine very visible changes to a site with millions of users, I would certainly be keen to hear from others about this, but I suspect not many will be so motivated by this issue that they create a GitHub account like I did.)

Yeah, that's fair. I'll revert the PR.

I still personally prefer the white crosses for practicality purposes, but if enough people want it to stay as it is, I can just use another piece set.