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PDMS Nastaliq Nafees

One of the earliest documented commercial-software Unicode Nastaliq attempts (2002, pre-dating CRULP's Nafees); the…

PDMS Nastaliq Nafees is a Nastaliq typeface from Pakistan, associated with Kashif Hisam / Pakistan Data Management Services (PDMS / PakData), first documented in 2002. Technically, it is early OpenType (TTF-flavoured) Urdu Nastaliq by Kashif Hisam at Pakistan Data Management Services (Karachi); the analysed binary is the v1.1 (2002) iPhone-deployment edition with 485 glyphs; name-table licence: 'All rights reserved. This font cannot be distributed, copied, modified, reverse-engineer[ed] in any manner.'. One of the earliest documented commercial-software Unicode Nastaliq attempts (2002, pre-dating CRULP's Nafees); the '_iphone' filename documents mobile deployment of Nastaliq before mobile OS support existed It ships inside a commercial product rather than as a standalone 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
Kashif Hisam
Foundry / publisher
Pakistan Data Management Services (PDMS / PakData)
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
485
Weights
regular
Variable
no
Year
2002
Downloads
new — no downloads yet
Rating
no reviews yet
Coverage verification
metadata-verified

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History & provenance

First documented 2002. Origin: Pakistan. Evidence grade A. One of the earliest documented commercial-software Unicode Nastaliq attempts (2002, pre-dating CRULP's Nafees); the '_iphone' filename documents mobile deployment of Nastaliq before mobile OS support existed.

Technology: Early OpenType (TTF-flavoured) Urdu Nastaliq by Kashif Hisam at Pakistan Data Management Services (Karachi); the analysed binary is the v1.1 (2002) iPhone-deployment edition with 485 glyphs; name-table licence: 'All rights reserved. This font cannot be distributed, copied, modified, reverse-engineer[ed] in any manner.'

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

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