Which software is best for Arabic, Urdu font?

Tanveer Qureshi
Tanveer Qureshi Posts: 18
in Type Design Software
Hello everyone, 
I just want to know which software is best to create Urdu or Acabic font with accents and where should I learn it to develop a font? I am really new to this, I hope your help will guide me to succes in this. 

Thank you so much!
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  • James Puckett
    James Puckett Posts: 2,023
    Glyphs has great support for developing Arabic fonts. Check out the tutorial: https://glyphsapp.com/tutorials/arabic
  • John Hudson
    John Hudson Posts: 3,478
    I recommend contacting Omar Type Foundry in Lahore. They make what I consider the best OpenType format Arabic script fonts, in terms of both design and technical capability.

    That said, if you are interested in making a nastaliq font, be aware that the OpenType format wasn't designed to handle cascading styles of Arabic script, and it is very ill-suited to controlling the relationships of mark positioning and inter-lettergroup spacing in such styles, especially where the Urdu ے (barree yeh) letter is involved.
  • AzizMostafa AzizAli
    AzizMostafa AzizAli Posts: 106
    edited August 2018
    >  if you are interested in making a nastaliq font, be aware that the OpenType format wasn't designed to handle cascading styles of Arabic script.

    @ That's why we developed the tool Qalambartar to handle the dynamic Arabic script, especially this Nastaliq http://maryamsoft.com/product/fontshop/main/wm_mirza-jali-htm/
    To see how Qalambartar works, just have a look at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itZ66gUVVCI
    and the attached QB-English.pdf

  • Vasil Stanev
    Vasil Stanev Posts: 785
    @AzizMostafa

    This looks amazing! 
  • Tanveer Qureshi
    Tanveer Qureshi Posts: 18
    John Hudson said:
    I recommend contacting Omar Type Foundry in Lahore. They make what I consider the best OpenType format Arabic script fonts, in terms of both design and technical capability.

    That said, if you are interested in making a nastaliq font, be aware that the OpenType format wasn't designed to handle cascading styles of Arabic script, and it is very ill-suited to controlling the relationships of mark positioning and inter-lettergroup spacing in such styles, especially where the Urdu ے (barree yeh) letter is involved.
    Thank you so much John, I finally learned URDU and Arabic font development by another person. It was technical and complex but just time taking. :)
  • Tanveer Qureshi
    Tanveer Qureshi Posts: 18
    Vasil Stanev said:
    @AzizMostafa

    This looks amazing! 
    Hi, 
    I know what is your point now as I learn later and this post was old. :)

    Thanks!
  • adamwhite
    adamwhite Posts: 45
    John Hudson said:
    I recommend contacting Omar Type Foundry in Lahore. They make what I consider the best OpenType format Arabic script fonts, in terms of both design and technical capability.

    That said, if you are interested in making a nastaliq font, be aware that the OpenType format wasn't designed to handle cascading styles of Arabic script, and it is very ill-suited to controlling the relationships of mark positioning and inter-lettergroup spacing in such styles, especially where the Urdu ے (barree yeh) letter is involved.
    If they would produce typographic script, it would have some sense, but all of their typefaces are quasi-Naskh. Wrong product for the wrong tech.
  • adamwhite
    adamwhite Posts: 45
    AzizMostafa AzizAli said:
    >  if you are interested in making a nastaliq font, be aware that the OpenType format wasn't designed to handle cascading styles of Arabic script.

    @ That's why we developed the tool Qalambartar to handle the dynamic Arabic script, especially this Nastaliq http://maryamsoft.com/product/fontshop/main/wm_mirza-jali-htm/
    To see how Qalambartar works, just have a look at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itZ66gUVVCI
    and the attached QB-English.pdf

    You have the team, tech and resources but you are still stubborn to produce a valid composer to solve style problems. You know that Decotype solved this loing time ago. If you don't want to cooperate, at least you can replicate the same functions.
  • adamwhite
    adamwhite Posts: 45
    You can use any to create the characters, but the problem is in non-existing (currently applied) engine which can present phoneme to grapheme relation, with option of grapheme variations without abusing Unicode.

    Decotypes ACE solves this problem, but since Arabic users don't know about Arabic script, we suffer for decades.

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