Nafees Nastaleeq

Family: Nafees Nastaleeq
Designer: Mr. Jamil-ur-Rehman
Foundry: Center For Research in Urdu Language Processing (CRULP)
Description: Nafees Nastaleeq is developed according to calligraphic rules, following the style of Syed Nafees Al-Hussaini (Nafees Raqam) one of the finest calligraphers of Pakistan. Guidance and calligraphy of basic glyphs for the font has been provided by Syed Jameel-ur-Rehman. He is pupil of Syed Nafees Shah and Hafiz Syed Anees-ul-Hassan. Nafees Nasta’leeq OTF contains approximately 1,000 glyphs, including about 26 ligatures. This font is operable on all platforms supporting OTF specifications. Nafees Nastaleeq allows Urdu computing on Microsoft 2000, NT, XP, Unix and Linux platforms. This font enables desktop and internet publishing, and electronic communication in Urdu using existing software (without any plug-ins) supporting OTF specifications, e.g. MS Word, MS Excel, MS Outlook (email), Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, Mozilla and MS PowerPoint. (from PDF inside the archive) Seems not working good as web font so see its alternative http://openfontlibrary.org/en/font/hussaini-nastaleeq

To use this font in your website add the following code to the head of your html page:


        <link rel="stylesheet" media="screen" href="http://openfontlibrary.org/face/nafees-nastaleeq" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>

Now you can use this font in your css file. Here is an example of a paragraph set in Nafees Regular:


      p { 

           font-family: 'NafeesRegular'; 

           font-weight: normal; 

           font-style: normal; 

        }

If you are interested in working on Nafees Nastaleeq, please read our guide on how to contribute to an existing font.

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