Awami Nastaliq (''Awami'' derived from the adjectival form for

Urdu Urdu (;"Urdu"
'' Nasta'liq ''Nastaliq'' (; fa, , ), also romanized as ''Nastaʿlīq'', is one of the main calligraphic hands used to write the Perso-Arabic script in the Persian and Urdu languages, often used also for Ottoman Turkish poetry, rarely for Arabic. ''Nast ...

-script font designed by SIL's Peter Martin for

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, 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. The font is available under the Open Font License.

External resources

Awami Nastaliq
at SIL International Nastaliq typefaces