Typeface · Script & handwriting
Awami Nastaliq
Awami Nastaliq (Awami derived from the adjectival form for Urdu word awam) is a Nasta'liq-script font designed by SIL's Peter Martin for Graphite aware applications.
About Awami Nastaliq
Awami Nastaliq (Awami derived from the adjectival form for Urdu word awam) is a Nasta'liq-script font designed by SIL's Peter Martin for Graphite aware applications. It requires a recent version of Firefox, LibreOffice, XeTeX, etc. to render correctly, and aiming at a wide variety of languages of southwest Asia, including but not limited to Urdu. It also provides a number of user-selectable font features available via 4-byte character tags to produce character variants and variable word spacing. The font is available under the Open Font License.
From the Wikipedia article “Awami Nastaliq”, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Using Awami Nastaliq in a book
Script faces belong on covers, titles and short accents. Avoid them for body text and never set them in all caps.
Commercial typefaces require a licence that covers embedding in PDFs and ebooks; check the foundry's licence before you publish.
Sources & data
- Structured data from Wikidata Q56291573 (CC0).
- Summary text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).