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About Noto Nastaliq Urdu Font

Noto Nastaliq Urdu is a cursive, modulated (“serif”) Nastaliq design for texts in the Middle Eastern Arabic script, especially in the Urdu language. Noto Nastaliq Urdu contains 1,138 glyphs, 9 OpenType features, and supports 281 characters from 6 Unicode blocks: Arabic, Arabic Supplement, Arabic Presentation Forms-A, Basic Latin, General Punctuation, Latin-1 Supplement. Supported writing systems Arabic (Nastaliq) Arabic (Nastaliq) is a Middle Eastern abjad, written right-to-left (250 million users). Default Arabic script variant for the Urdu language, also used for Persian and other languages in Afghanistan, India, Iran, and Pakistan. The Nastaliq variant of Arabic was developed in Persia (now Iran) in the 15th century. Highly cursive, connects a sequence of letters into clusters at a sloping angle. Needs software support for complex text layout (shaping). Read more on ScriptSource , Unicode , Wikipedia , r12a .

Style & Use Cases

Overall Style
Classic, Refined, Serif
Use Case
Editorial, Print
Ideal For
book covers, long-form text, and traditional branding
Pairs With
a clean sans-serif for captions

Noto Nastaliq Urdu Specifications

Font FamilyNoto Nastaliq Urdu
StyleRegular
Full NameNoto Nastaliq Urdu Regular
Version3.009
Weight400 (Regular)
Glyph Count1723 glyphs
PostScript NameNotoNastaliqUrdu-Regular
DesignerMonotype Design Team (Patrick Giasson: type design, Kamal Mansour: OpenType code, Glenda Bellarosa). Updated by Simon Cozens.
FormatTTF (TrueType)
File Size674.1 KB

OpenType Features

Noto Nastaliq Urdu ships with 1 OpenType feature you can switch on in apps that support them (Illustrator, InDesign, Affinity, Figma, CSS font-feature-settings).

  • Ordinals
  • Variable font · axes: wght

Languages Supported

Noto Nastaliq Urdu supports 326 languages.

How to Install Noto Nastaliq Urdu Font

Step-by-step instructions for every platform

  1. 1Download the Noto Nastaliq Urdu font file (.ttf or .otf).
  2. 2Locate the downloaded file in your Downloads folder.
  3. 3Right-click the font file.
  4. 4Select "Install" to install for the current user, or "Install for all users" to make it available system-wide.
  5. 5Noto Nastaliq Urdu is now available in Word, Photoshop, Illustrator, and all other apps.
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What pairs well with Noto Nastaliq Urdu Font?

Noto Nastaliq Urdu Font is a versatile serif font that works for both headings and body text. Pair it with a contrasting sans-serif or slab serif font to add visual interest and a clear distinction between titles and body copy.

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Noto Nastaliq Urdu Font

by Google

Reviewed by the FontBoxDL team · Updated July 2026

License: Open Font License (OFL)
Free
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