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Urdu Khat-e-Naqsh (Nastalique)

One of the earliest documented personal-computer Urdu Nastaliq faces (1999), from the pre-Unicode personal-site era…

Urdu Khat-e-Naqsh (Nastalique) is a Nastaliq typeface from Pakistan, associated with Shehzad Ashiq Ali / Ashiq Enterprises, first documented in 1999. TrueType Nastaliq ('UrduNaqsh', ordinary and Nastalique versions, 1999) created by Shehzad Ashiq Ali of Ashiq Enterprises, Lahore, and distributed from his 'Urdu Page by Shehzad' word-processing site with PC, Mac and UNIX versions. One of the earliest documented personal-computer Urdu Nastaliq faces (1999), from the pre-Unicode personal-site era of Urdu software Its current availability could not be verified from public sources. 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
Shehzad Ashiq Ali
Foundry / publisher
Ashiq Enterprises
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
—
Weights
regular
Variable
no
Year
1999
Downloads
new — no downloads yet
Rating
no reviews yet
Coverage verification
metadata-verified

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History & provenance

First documented 1999. Origin: Pakistan. Evidence grade B. One of the earliest documented personal-computer Urdu Nastaliq faces (1999), from the pre-Unicode personal-site era of Urdu software.

Technology: TrueType Nastaliq ('UrduNaqsh', ordinary and Nastalique versions, 1999) created by Shehzad Ashiq Ali of Ashiq Enterprises, Lahore, and distributed from his 'Urdu Page by Shehzad' word-processing site with PC, Mac and UNIX versions.

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

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