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

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word ''awam'') is a Nasta'liq-script font designed by SIL's Peter Martin for

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aware applications. It requires a recent version of

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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