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Amar Nastaleeq (امر نستعلیق)

First Nastaliq optimised for web embedding on Urdu websites (2013); announced by poet Fahmida Riaz; rendered/used…

Amar Nastaleeq is a Nastaliq typeface from Pakistan, associated with Amar Fayaz Buriro, Saima Asghar, first documented in 2013. Nastaliq developed on the tables of Nafees Nastaleeq with all glyphs and Arabic diacritics re-shaped and the majority of orthographic ligatures excluded; UTF-8 (encoding scheme 4) with 1,006 characters including Roman typography and dual numeral sets; 7 common Urdu ligatures; sizes 361 KB (TTF), 154 KB (EOT), 185 KB (WOFF) — the smallest web-embedding Nastaliq of its time. First Nastaliq optimised for web embedding on Urdu websites (2013); announced by poet Fahmida Riaz; rendered/used exclusively on Jang Group websites for 18 months, then opened for free usage No official standalone download exists today; the font circulates through community mirrors, which this page links for reference only. This page is part of the rtlfonts.com research archive: every claim above is backed by graded, cited sources listed in the History & provenance section, cross-checked against font-binary forensics where a file could be obtained.

Font record

Style
Nastaliq
Languages
Urdu Fonts
Designer
Amar Fayaz Buriro, Saima Asghar
Foundry / publisher
—
License
Freeware (personal & commercial use) — commercial use allowed
Price
See publisher
Formats
TTF, WOFF2 (web preview)
Compatibility
Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS; Adobe InDesign/Photoshop, MS Word, InPage
Glyphs
1,006
Weights
regular
Variable
no
Year
2013
Downloads
new — no downloads yet
Rating
no reviews yet
Coverage verification
metadata-verified

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History & provenance

First documented 2013. Origin: Pakistan. Evidence grade B. First Nastaliq optimised for web embedding on Urdu websites (2013); announced by poet Fahmida Riaz; rendered/used exclusively on Jang Group websites for 18 months, then opened for free usage.

Technology: Nastaliq developed on the tables of Nafees Nastaleeq with all glyphs and Arabic diacritics re-shaped and the majority of orthographic ligatures excluded; UTF-8 (encoding scheme 4) with 1,006 characters including Roman typography and dual numeral sets; 7 common Urdu ligatures; sizes 361 KB (TTF), 154 KB (EOT), 185 KB (WOFF) — the smallest web-embedding Nastaliq of its time.

This font is part of the Nastaliq Research Archive — the open, graded history of the Nastaliq script and its typefaces.

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