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Dima Shekasteh (دیما شکسته)

The best-documented Iranian commercial Shekasteh-Nastaliq family, with designer, group, versions and licences all…

Dima Shekasteh is a Nastaliq typeface from Iran, associated with Rouhollah Belvardi, first documented in 2016. Persian Shekasteh-Nastaliq by Rouhollah Belvardi for Dima Software Group (dima.ir); three versions catalogued by Iranian resellers: Dima Shekasteh Free (2016, GPL v2 per name table), Dima Shekasteh Free 2 (2018, free, vendor fontirani.ir) and a paid edition; the two collected binaries share the IranNastaliq-derived 3,302-glyph structure (cmap identical to IranNastaliq 2.0). The best-documented Iranian commercial Shekasteh-Nastaliq family, with designer, group, versions and licences all present in the binary name tables The font is publicly available today — follow the official source link for the current download. 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
Persian Fonts
Designer
Rouhollah Belvardi
Foundry / publisher
—
License
Commercial license (purchase required) — commercial use allowed
Price
See publisher
Formats
TTF, WOFF2 (web preview)
Compatibility
Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS; Adobe InDesign/Photoshop, MS Word, InPage
Glyphs
3,302
Weights
regular
Variable
no
Year
2016
Downloads
new — no downloads yet
Rating
no reviews yet
Coverage verification
metadata-verified

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History & provenance

First documented 2016. Origin: Iran. Evidence grade A. The best-documented Iranian commercial Shekasteh-Nastaliq family, with designer, group, versions and licences all present in the binary name tables.

Technology: Persian Shekasteh-Nastaliq by Rouhollah Belvardi for Dima Software Group (dima.ir); three versions catalogued by Iranian resellers: Dima Shekasteh Free (2016, GPL v2 per name table), Dima Shekasteh Free 2 (2018, free, vendor fontirani.ir) and a paid edition; the two collected binaries share the IranNastaliq-derived 3,302-glyph structure (cmap identical to IranNastaliq 2.0).

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

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