Today, we are excited to release an early
version of Noto Nastaliq Urdu.
Nastaliq’s rich typographic tradition presents particular challenges to computerized
typography. We’ve been working over a year to solve technical and design issues for an Urdu
Nastaliq (aka Nastaleeq) font. This early version is by no means complete and perfect. We
expect to work closely with the community to incorporate comments and suggestions.
This is a sample web page to showcase Noto
Nastaliq Urdu as a webfont. Go ahead open it. If your browser renders it correctly, you will
see something like this:
Text in the image is from a poem by Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib. It means “I can get
another if I break it / so a clay cup trumps a grail.” This font can be challenging to the
current generation of browsers and font renderers. It partially broke a few of them; we have
been working with browser manufacturers to fix all those issues.
