Noto Nastaliq Urdu
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The Anatomy of a Typeface
By FontSide · June 2026
Every typeface is a system of decisions — about stroke contrast, x-height, spacing, and rhythm. The best ones feel invisible: you stop seeing the letters and start hearing the voice behind them. That transparency is the hardest thing to design.
A high x-height opens up the counters and makes small text breathe. Tight tracking pulls a headline together; loose tracking gives a caption room to exhale. None of these choices are accidents — they are arguments about how reading should feel.
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Package Manager
The recommended way to use fonts in modern web projects.
1. Install Package
pnpm add @fontsource-variable/noto-nastaliq-urdu 2. Import in App
import '@fontsource-variable/noto-nastaliq-urdu/wght.css'; 3. CSS Usage
body {
font-family: "Noto Nastaliq Urdu Variable", serif;
} Google Fonts CDN
Use Google's CDN to embed the fonts directly via HTML.
HTML <head>
<!-- Please select at least one weight and style --> Fontsource CDN
Skip the build step by adding this directly to your global CSS file.
Global CSS
/* noto-nastaliq-urdu-latin-wght-normal */
@font-face {
font-family: "Noto Nastaliq Urdu Variable";
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
font-weight: 100 900;
src: url(https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/fontsource/fonts/noto-nastaliq-urdu:vf@latest/latin-wght-normal.woff2)
format("woff2-variations");
} Background & Story
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.
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Install
pnpm add @fontsource-variable/noto-nastaliq-urdu Designed by
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License
OFL-1.1