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Urdu Nastaliq Unicode

Early pre-CRULP attempt at a Unicode Nastaliq circulated via personal pages; documented (with its dead distribution…

Urdu Nastaliq Unicode is a Nastaliq typeface from Pakistan / India, associated with Shehzad Ali, Tabish Qureshi, first documented in an undated release. Windows TrueType Urdu font using Unicode Arabic coding, developed by Shehzad Ali and 'unicoded' by Tabish Qureshi (Department of Physics, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi); distributed from Shehzad Ali's Fortunecity page (dead) with fonts also hosted at arbornet.org/~tabish/u-font (dead). Early pre-CRULP attempt at a Unicode Nastaliq circulated via personal pages; documented (with its dead distribution links) in Devroye's index Its original download pages have gone offline; the font survives only in circulation. 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 Ali, Tabish Qureshi
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
—
Weights
regular
Variable
no
Year
—
Downloads
new — no downloads yet
Rating
no reviews yet
Coverage verification
metadata-verified

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History & provenance

Origin: Pakistan / India. Evidence grade B. Early pre-CRULP attempt at a Unicode Nastaliq circulated via personal pages; documented (with its dead distribution links) in Devroye's index.

Technology: Windows TrueType Urdu font using Unicode Arabic coding, developed by Shehzad Ali and 'unicoded' by Tabish Qureshi (Department of Physics, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi); distributed from Shehzad Ali's Fortunecity page (dead) with fonts also hosted at arbornet.org/~tabish/u-font (dead).

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

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