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Nasta'liq
Nasta'liq or Nasta'leegh (نستعلیق) is a specific style for writing in the Arabic alphabet. It is the preferred style for writing Urdu, but is mostly considered a form of calligraphic art for writing other languages, specially Persian and Ottoman Turkish. The name derives from mixing Naskh and Ta'aleeq , two other writing styles, of which Nasta'liq is a descendant.
In Iran, Nasta'liq is usually written with a somewhat thick reed pen (with a tip of about 5mm), and a special kind of carbon ink. In Pakistan, various kinds of pens and inks are used, because of the higher usage of the style.
Producing high quality Nasta'liq in print is a demanding process. For example, Monotype's attempt to implement Nasta'liq for photo composer typesetting resulted in a glyph repertoire of 20,000 different gylphs.
External links
- Free Open Type Unicode compliant fonts covering both Nasta'liq and Naskh
- Free True Type font covering basic Nasta'liq
- Free Nasta'liq Writer from SIL (Macintosh only)
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