... and fonts capable of authentically handling Urdu ( Nastaliq ) typesetting work (long books). I have come across a package called ... together with a family of fonts called simply “Noori Nastaliq” by Kamal Mansour. Ideally, I am hoping to find an OpenType ...

Forum topic - jklassen - 11 May 2008 - 3:37am - 17 comments - 0 attachments

... the license first. Personally, I’d go for a nice Nastaliq, or Sulus face for any names. Why aren’t you using whatever ...

Forum topic - Chipman223 - 7 Aug 2008 - 6:52am - 6 comments - 0 attachments

... it fits the design brief. Obviously, not a Thuluth or a Nastaliq. Example 2: An Arabic face for the setting of a poetry book. Well, ... one has more choices. BTW: I am sure I’ve seen Nastaliq airport logos before, in Iran, Pakistan, maybe even Kuwayt... -)) ...

Forum topic - ishamid - 16 Jan 2006 - 12:29pm - 110 comments - 0 attachments

... / Any Font Software ? MARAT release › i need nastaliq font i need nastaliq font urgently. Thanks (Release) ...

Forum topic - Arif - 5 Nov 2007 - 4:15am - 1 comment - 2 attachments

... adaptable and efficient. Consider, for example, Monotype Nastaliq, which had up to 22,000 ligature glyphs — some for entire words ... John, …… Monotype Thanks John, ...... Monotype Nastaliq has recently been remade in OpenType using only a small fraction of ...

Forum topic - AzizMostafa - 3 Jul 2006 - 9:47am - 168 comments - 0 attachments

... rotation or stroke widths (see John’s discussion of Nastaliq, and even more, look at some Nastaliq writing), it must have been the writer’s choice that determined ...

Forum topic - William Berkson - 25 May 2008 - 9:46am - 119 comments - 0 attachments

... few adobe trials in a greed to see... but no! a complex nastaliq charachter based opentype font is adobes enemy, while ligtures are ...

Forum topic - Sw MY - 9 Apr 2007 - 9:34pm - 39 comments - 0 attachments

... At Monotype we did a sort of redesign or update to Noori Nastaliq, which had been in Monotype’s library for a long time, but was ... maddeningly complicated to implement; the calligraphic Nastaliq style has a characteristic slope in each word (among other ...

Forum topic - armin - 23 Jan 2008 - 1:08pm - 32 comments - 0 attachments

... Qalmi and Monotype’s Noori pre-date these as true Nastaliq style typefaces for other technologies - it’s a shame that neither is available in OpenType form. Anyhow Urdu Nastaliq is hard - the number of glyphs, and OpenType schemes needed put it up ...

Forum topic - clauses - 6 Jul 2007 - 7:39am - 6 comments - 0 attachments

... relevant - depending on the methods used an OpenType Nastaliq Urdu font may be anywhere from slow to unusable. In this case ...

Forum topic - Ijaz.Mehrr - 9 Jul 2007 - 8:20pm - 7 comments - 0 attachments