Mirza Ahmad Jamil

ARK https://n2t.net/ark:54728/rtd-p-000042

Roles

type designer, calligrapher

Dates

1921 – 2014

Nationality

Pakistani

Created Noori Nastaliq, the first digital Nastaliq typeface, in collaboration with Monotype, hand-drawing about 18,000 ligatures. Declared an Invention of National Importance by Pakistan in 1982.

Typefaces

• Noori Nastaliqdesigner

Sources

• The Legacy of Jameel Noori Nastaliq - Shaping Urdu Typography
• Nastaliq Typography and Typefaces - Folkloristan

Identifiers

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