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.

Sample of the font.

The font is available under the Open Font License.

External resources

Awami Nastaliq at SIL International

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