Noto Nastaliq Urdu
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4 Styles Serif
The pleasure
of a well-set
page.
Noto Nastaliq Urdu · Regular
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Download Noto Nastaliq Urdu ↓TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1
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Ghazals for a winter evening
A Page In Noto Nastaliq Urdu
Noto Nastaliq Urdu · Regular
Headings, labels and running text.
Notes From The Reading Room
The reading room opens onto a quiet courtyard. Along the shelves, small handwritten labels mark the collections. A visitor leaves a book open beside the window, keeping a place for the next reader.
A heading marks the next chapter. The margins leave room for a note while the text continues across the page.
4 Styles,
One Family
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Regular400
Ghazals for a winter evening
Medium500
Ghazals for a winter evening
Semi Bold600
Ghazals for a winter evening
Bold700
Ghazals for a winter evening
Urdu is normally written in Nastaliq, the hanging, sloping form of the Arabic script that took shape in Persia in the 15th century. It is highly cursive. Letters join into clusters that run at a slope, so a word steps down across the line where a Naskh word would sit flat, and none of it works without software that shapes the text properly.
This one comes from the Noto collection. Patrick Giasson drew it at Monotype, Kamal Mansour wrote the OpenType code, and Glenda Bellarosa was on the team too; Simon Cozens later updated it, and the current files run in 4 weights, Regular to Bold.
Our advice is to give it room between lines. Sloping clusters with dots above and below them take up more height than a flat script, and leading that suits a Latin paragraph looks cramped here. The script is also used for Persian, but this design was made with Urdu first in mind.
Characters & Figures
668 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 400 recorded characters.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !
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The Font Files
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Noto Nastaliq Urdu
4 TTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 991 KB ↓- Version
- 3.007
- License
- SIL Open Font License 1.1
Install On Your Computer
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Use On A Website
Keep the font files and the included stylesheet together. Update the stylesheet path to match your project.
<link rel="stylesheet"
href="/fonts/noto-nastaliq-urdu-2/noto-nastaliq-urdu-2.css">
body {
font-family: 'Noto Nastaliq Urdu', sans-serif;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
The family provides the heading; Inter carries the supporting text.
Noto Nastaliq Urdu Heading · Inter Body
Notes From The Reading Room
The reading room opens onto a quiet courtyard. Along the shelves, small handwritten labels mark the collections. A visitor leaves a book open beside the window, keeping a place for the next reader.