mehr

Mehr Nastaliq Web Font

A simple package providing the Mehr Nastaliq Web font-face. The font was created by Muhammad Zeeshan Nasar following the calligraphy of Nasrullah Mehr.

Features

• Faster rendering speed as compared to other Nastaliq fonts
• OTF Font file size reduced up to an amazing 108 kb only
• Best look according to National Calligraphic Standards
• Open Type, character based, Lahori Nastaliq Font
• Aaraab and marks support
• Limited Kashida support
• Reduced line height

Installing

Assuming you have NodeJS, NPM and Bower installed globally just open up a terminal, navigate to your projects root directory and then execute

# install via NPM 
$ npm install mehr --save
 
# install via Bower 
$ bower install mehr --save

Usage

<!-- Just add the following stylesheet link to your html file: -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://unpkg.com/mehr/mehr-font.css">

/* or import font stylesheet from within your css file */
@import url(//unpkg.com/mehr/mehr-font.css);

Then use provided font-face it in your CSS:

h1 {
  font-family: Mehr;
}
 
p.quote {
  font-family: Mehr;
}

License

This package is available under the MIT license and the Mehr Nastaliq Web font is available under the Creative Commons License.