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Aamir Wali obtained his BS degree in Computer Sciences from National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Lahore, in 2002 and MS in Computer Science from the same university 2004. He is a lecturer and faculty member in Center for Research in Urdu Language Processing at National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan. Since then he has been doing R&D in script processing of Urdu. His has incorporated OpenType GSUB Table 8 into Linux's rendering engine Pango and has worked on OpenType fonts for Urdu such as Nafees Nastaliq, Nafees Naskh and Nafees Pakistani Naskh. At Typotechnica 2005 he spoke on "Contextual Substitution in Nafees Nastaliq Script". [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Choose from many lists of font selections. New lists published almost daily. Addictive Fonts is a joint project of two students from Pakistan, Saad Bassi and Taimur Asghar. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Adil Rehan
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Pakistani calligrapher who developed the calligraphic Arabic script Noori Nastaliq for Monotype in the 1970s. He has been awarded with TAMGHA-I-IMTIAZ by government of Pakistan in 1982. Mirza Jamil is the owner of the Noori Nastaliq typeface. Agfa Monotype Corporation holds copyright to the Noori Nastaliq digital font data. Finally, Noori Nastaliq is a trademark of The Monotype Corporation. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Alvi Technologies
| Amjad Hussain Alvi (Alvi Technologies, Pakistan) makes available a free Urdu font, Alvi Nastaleeq (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Amjad Hussain Alvi
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Student in Pakistan, who created the geometric poster typeface Geometra (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Syed Hyder, one of the founders of the School of Computer Science at McGill University, Olivier Maquelin and Amar Goudjil (photo, with Syed Hyder), developed high-quality nonlinear context-sensitive Arabic fonts. One of the greatest hackers anywhere, Olivier wrote an in-house TrueType to PostScript converter in C in two afternoons. Paola Maleh and Laleh Tajrobekhar helped out with the programming. Laleh's brother in Iran, one of the leading calligraphers there, provided the team with wonderful Nastalique glyphs. Syed Hyder died in Pakistan on Easter Sunday, 2006. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Syed Hyder, one of the founders of the School of Computer Science at McGill University, Olivier Maquelin and Amar Goudjil, developed high-quality nonlinear context-sensitive Arabic fonts. One of the greatest hackers anywhere, Olivier wrote an in-house TrueType to PostScript converter in C in two afternoons (without hinting of course). Syed Hyder died in Pakistan on Easter Sunday, 2006. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The Arabic script is used for the following languages: Arabic, Farsi (the official language of Iran), Jawi (the Arabic alphabet for Malay used until the 17th century), Kurdish, Pashto (the official language of Afghanistan), Sindhi (an Indo-Aryan language with about 9 million speakers in the south-eastern province of Sind in Pakistan and in India) and Urdu (the official language of Pakistan); it can also be used for Punjabi (which is spoken in Pakistan and the Indian state of Panjab, but only in Pakistan is it written using Arabic script). It is cursive, caseless, and written right-to-left. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator of the blood paint face Arslan's Blood (2009), the old typewriter face Typewriter From 286 (2009), and the grungy Grunge Zinda Bad (2009) and I Love Grunge (2009). Arslan is from Faisalabad, Pakistan and was born in 1988. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ashfaq A. Niazi
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Dari, Farsi, Pashto, Urdu fonts at Asiatype in Pakistan. Commercial. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
CRULP: Center for Research in Urdu Language Processing
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Free Urdu TT font by Adil Rehan, Karachi, Pakistan. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hira Fareed (Karachi, Pakistan) created TypeMeetsVision (2013), an alphabet obtained by photographing reading glasses. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ibrahim Jamali
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Jamali Foundry
| Ibrahim Jamali, an electronic techician from Pakistan, started his own typefoundry, Jamali Foundry, in Saudi Arabia in 2012. In 2012, he created the zany Latin display face Aliya. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
jasarat.com
| Free Urdu.ttf, made by Adil Rehan, Karachi, Pakistan. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Kamal Mansour used to run Kappa Type in Palo Alto, CA. and was involved in software, fonts and keyboards for some languages. Thereafter, he joined Monotype in 1996 where he is now involved in OpenType implementations for various scripts including Latin, Arabic, and Hebrew. At Monotype, his responsibilities includes growing the library of non-Latin scripts, investigating potential products, in-house consulting, as well as assisting customers with font specifications. He spoke at ATypI 2005 in Helsinki on Nastaliq style through open type, about which he writes: Designed by Pakistani calligrapher Mirza Jamil, Noori Nastaliq is a calligraphic Arabic-script typeface originally devised for use on a Monotype imagesetter in the 1970s. Once this proprietary equipment became obsolete, Noori Nastaliq could not be readily implemented for many years with the digital technology at the time. With the advent and maturation of OpenType technology, Noori Nastaliq is once again alive. In spite of the many graphic complexities of Nastaliq style such as its oblique alignment to the baseline and its cursive connections, OpenType proved sufficient for the task. Speaker at TypeCon 2012 in Milwaukee. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, who made a nice poster of a human face based on parts of a typeface (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
King Fahd Glorious Quran Printing Complex
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TrueType and Type 1 fonts for Macintosh computers. Four fonts, 100 USD. "Sindhi is spoken in Pakistan, where it is written in the Arabic script with the addition of several letters to accommodate special sounds. Sindhi is also one of the constitutional languages of India." [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Lateef Sagar Shaikh
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Dutch designer at Decotype of DecoType Nastaliq (2009), which won an award in the non-Latin category at TDC2 2010. The award blurb reads: DecoType Nastaliq is the latest fruit of more than 25 years of analyzing Arabic scripts in their pure, pre-typographic form. Like its close relative ruq?ah, nastaliq retains the original two-dimensional aspect of Arabic script. To capture this for use in an essentially Latin-based technical environment is a great challenge. The final glyph set consists of a minimal set of functional shapes, with which for all Arabic-scripted languages all imaginable combinations with any diacritic attachment can be generated. This is possible solely with the use of ACE, the Arabic Calligraphic Engine, a radical departure from conventional thinking in Gutenberg-style movable type. ACE was developed by the DecoType team, Thomas Milo, Peter Somers and Mirjam Somers, initially for the ruqah script, later it was expanded for a very broad analysis of the naskh script. Today ACE drives any Arabic typeface and is the core engine of WinSoft's Tasmeem enhancement of Adobe InDesign Middle Eastern version. The seminal role of ACE for the development of smart font technology, including OpenType, was recently acknowledged with the Dr Peter Karow Award. At ATypI 2011 in Reykjavik, she spoke on the slanted Arabic typefaces with cascading connections: It was exactly this challenge that brought DecoType into the typography scene in 1985 with the very first Ruqah computer typography. In 2011, a completely new Ruqah design takes its place. In addition to that, the award-winning DecoType Nastaliq typeface in Persian style is very well received as the top typeface in WinSoft Tasmeem. A second nastaliq, this time in Pakistani style is under construction. | |
Mohammed Saleem
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Pak Nastaleeq is an OpenType Unicode Nastaleeq Font created and developed by Center of Excellence for Urdu Informatics by Mohsin Shafeeque Hijazee in 2005. Alternate URL. Hijazee is a team member in the Font Department of the Center of Excellence for Urdu Informatics, a project of the Government of Pakistan. He also made Indus Naskh (2007). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Gurmukhi fonts at Agfa Monotype: Monotype Gurmukhi, ITR Kabel, ITR Mahan, ITR Manohar, ITR Nilesh, ITR Ranjit, ITR Vijay, ITR Yogesh. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Pakistani designer. Devian Tart link. He is working on the Latin face Effendy (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
He also created Adobe Naskh. His main Arabic typeface to date is Zuhair Albazi Naskh, an advanced OpenType Arabic typeface, which is based on the Ottoman manuscript. He writes: This unique typeface contains an unmatched range of features known from the Arabic script. It is not merely a font but an ultimate typesetting and design tool for the Arabic script in classic Naskh style, with letters variants and calligraphic styles, specifically developed to take advantage of the extensive functionality for Naskh Arabic typography. The typeface allowd many controls such as shape alternates, space adjustments, mark placements, and swashes. Two very special features: Calligraphic Naskh kashida (Tatweel) upto three levels of elongations, so the Kashida distribution and frequence can be precisely controlled to create Arabic calligraphic documents without a calligrapher; thousands of kerning pairs for the fine adjustment of letters specially after Raa, Zaa, Waw and before Kaaf. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Pakistan Data Management Services
| Karachi-based company. In 2007, they published a beautiful font specially designed for the Quran. Their announcement: akistan Data Management Services is pleased to announce the release of an OpenType Font for writing Holy Quran text based on Unicode standard. The font features high quality glyphs and has support for all aeraabs/mark placements at proper places. All waqfs (special symbols) used for identifying different pauses in reading are also provided. PDMS Saleem Quran Font provides advanced Arabic typography - close to calligraphy while retaining the beauty and legibility of Quran Majeed Arabic text. This font is developed according to rules used in Quranic calligraphy in Pakistan, following the style of Yameen Dehlvi, who is one of the finest Quran calligraphers of Pakistan. Guidance and calligraphy of basic glyphs for the font has been provided by Mr. Mohammed Saleem. He is a student of Mohammed Iqbal Saeed (founder of Dar-ul-Tehreer Academy), Yameen Dehlvi and Shafiq-uz-Zaman. Mohammed Saleem is inspired by work of Shafiq-uz-Zaman (master calligrapher for Masjid Nabbawi) and frequently consults him for guidance. Another Arabic font family, PDMS Jauhar, is a 1700-ligature Nastalkiq script type family costing 250 dollars. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Creators of Arabic fonts such as PDMS_Saleem_QuranFont (2007). Download site. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
PakType - Pakistani Typography
| Pakistani Typography or PakType is an open source project run by a group of volunteer designers and font developers for making Unicode based open source OpenType fonts supporting Arabic Script under the terms of the GNU GPL as published by the FSF. The project leader is Lateef Sagar. Free fonts include PakType Naqsh (2004: Glyphs designed by Umar Rashid and Lateef Sagar Shaikh. OTF made by Lateef Sagar Shaikh) and PakType Tehreer (2005: Glyphs designed by Mohammad Hanif. OTF made by Lateef Sagar Shaikh). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Pakistani designer of Pacman font (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Pakistan-based designer of the computer/futuristic face Tameeraati (2005). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Sarmad Hashmi (Karachi, Pakistan) used the Inception movie title to create a prismatic alphabet in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Shehzad Ali
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Karachi-based group which is working on the very scripty Urdu font Rana. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Syed Jameel-ur-Rehman
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Lahore, Pakistan-based creator (b. 1989) of Gutsy (2012, a four-style techno typeface family). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Karachi, Pakistan, who created Solid (2012), a heavy mechanical face with a 3d version. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Urdu Nastaliq Unicode
| Urdu Nastaliq Unicode is a Windows True-Type Urdu font which uses Unicode Arabic coding. It was developed by Shehzad Ali and unicoded by Tabish Qureshi (Department of Physics, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi). Here we find more Urdu fonts: AlKatib1 (1998, Naseem Amjad Ali Khan), Umair I (1997, Umair Khan, Urdu Web, based on Neda Reyanah's Persian Font), Urdu Khat-e-Naqsh (1998, AHS), Urdu (1995, Tooraj Enayati and 1997, Adil Rehan, Karachi), Urdu Khat-e-Naqsh (Nastalique) (1999, Shehzad Ashiq Ali). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Urdu word processing site by Shehzad Ashiq Ali of Ashiq Enterprises in Lahore, Pakistan. Has the fonts UrduNaqsh (truetype, Nastalique and ordinary version, made in 1999). PC, Mac and UNIX versions of these fonts, all created by Shehzad himself. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Free Urdu truetype font by Adil Rehan, Karachi, Pakistan. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Ashfaq A. Niazi is a designer in Lahore, Pakistan. He is associated with the King Fahd Glorious Quran Printing Complex, which in 2009 released the free Arabic language font 
Graphic designer and photographer in Karachi, Pakistan. She created the 
Lahore, Pakistan-based type designer who made a Naskh font, 
Salman Muavia (Lahore. Pakistan) created the compass-and-ruler Latin typeface 
