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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.

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