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Hussaini Nastaleeq

Extension of the Nafees Nastaleeq design to Arabic and Persian, documented by Devroye's CRULP entry (2013) and kept…

Hussaini Nastaleeq is a Nastaliq typeface from Pakistan, associated with Syed Jameel-ur-Rehman, first documented in 2013. Nastaliq derived from Nafees Nastaleeq covering Arabic and Farsi in addition to Urdu; named after Syed Nafees Al-Hussaini; later packaged and maintained on GitHub by Alif Type. Extension of the Nafees Nastaleeq design to Arabic and Persian, documented by Devroye's CRULP entry (2013) and kept alive by the open-source community (Alif Type repository) 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
Urdu Fonts
Designer
Syed Jameel-ur-Rehman
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
1,024
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 A. Extension of the Nafees Nastaleeq design to Arabic and Persian, documented by Devroye's CRULP entry (2013) and kept alive by the open-source community (Alif Type repository).

Technology: Nastaliq derived from Nafees Nastaleeq covering Arabic and Farsi in addition to Urdu; named after Syed Nafees Al-Hussaini; later packaged and maintained on GitHub by Alif Type.

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

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