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The first smart-rendered Nastaliq widely usable on personal computers (mid-1990s Macintosh), predating Unicode…
Nastaliq Navees is a Nastaliq typeface from United Kingdom / United States, associated with Jonathan Kew, first documented in 1997. Symbol-encoded (non-Unicode) Nastaliq for the Macintosh rendered through QuickDraw GX morphology ('the glyph used to render any particular character is determined by the surrounding characters'); MacArabic- and MacRoman-encoded suitcases; released as shareware, later OFL with FontLab/FontForge sources. The first smart-rendered Nastaliq widely usable on personal computers (mid-1990s Macintosh), predating Unicode OpenType Nastaliq by nearly a decade; SIL's own predecessor to Awami Nastaliq It is no longer distributed by its original publisher. 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.
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First documented 1997. Origin: United Kingdom / United States. Evidence grade A. The first smart-rendered Nastaliq widely usable on personal computers (mid-1990s Macintosh), predating Unicode OpenType Nastaliq by nearly a decade; SIL's own predecessor to Awami Nastaliq.
Technology: Symbol-encoded (non-Unicode) Nastaliq for the Macintosh rendered through QuickDraw GX morphology ('the glyph used to render any particular character is determined by the surrounding characters'); MacArabic- and MacRoman-encoded suitcases; released as shareware, later OFL with FontLab/FontForge sources.
This font is part of the Nastaliq Research Archive — the open, graded history of the Nastaliq script and its typefaces.