Gulzar
Designed by Borna Izadpanah, Fiona Ross, Alice Savoie, Simon Cozens. 1 style · serif
Sets Urdu · English · Arabic · Persian
Regular · 400
ہزاروں خواہشیں ایسی کہ ہر خواہش پہ دم نکلے
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About Gulzar
Gulzar is a contemporary Urdu Nastaliq designed for reading, not just for headlines. It was led by Borna Izadpanah, with font engineering by Simon Cozens and a Latin companion by Alice Savoie, and grew out of research into Urdu digital typefaces since the early 1980s and close study of Urdu calligraphy.
Where many Nastaliq fonts are built for display, Gulzar was drawn to stay legible at text sizes, on screen and in print — rare and valuable in a free Urdu font.
Like any Nastaliq it needs generous line spacing. It is a natural choice for Urdu articles, books and apps, and its Latin is drawn to sit with the Urdu, which helps in bilingual text.
Licence
Gulzar is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which permits use in personal and commercial work. Read the licence before redistributing the files or selling them on.
Installing it
- Windows.
- Right-click the downloaded file and choose Install, or drop it into Settings → Personalisation → Fonts.
- macOS.
- Double-click the file and press Install Font in Font Book.
- On the web.
- Self-host the WOFF2 and declare it with an
@font-facerule rather than linking to this page. - Urdu text.
- Urdu needs right-to-left layout and letters that join. In Word, add Urdu under the language settings. In Photoshop, switch to the Middle Eastern and South Asian text engine under Preferences → Type. Nastaliq also needs a generous line height.