Amar Nastaleeq
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| Category | Nastaʿlīq |
|---|---|
| Designer(s) | Amar Fayaz Buriro, Saima Asghar |
| Date created | 2012 |
| Date released | 2013 |
| License | Proprietary |
Amar Nastaleeq (Urdu: امر نستعلیق) is a Nastaliq style Embedded OpenType and TrueType Font which was lowest in size, created for web embedding on Urdu websites in 2013. The font was announced by Urdu poet Fahmida Riaz.[1] Jang Group of Newspapers has rendered this font from the developers.[citation needed]
Amar Nastaleeq was developed on the tables of Nafees Nastaleeq created by Center for Language Engineering, Lahore and re-shaped all glyphs and Arabic diacritics in order and excluded majority of Orthographic ligatures by developers. Amar Fayaz Buriro, a language engineer[2] and Saima Asghar have developed this font and released it in 2013.[3][4] Jang Group of Newspapers then rendered this font and exclusively used it in their websites for 18 months and then this font become freely for open usage.[5]
Technical info
The font is developed for Desktop publishing and Embedded OpenType. It is encoded on UTF-8, in Encoding Scheme: 4. The font has total 1006 number of characters of Urdu and Roman typography including numerical digits of both languages. There are 7 most commonly used Orthographic ligatures of Urdu language are included in the font.[6]
