Nastaliq
An Arabic-script calligraphic and typographic style originating in Persia and the most prevalent writing style for Urdu. Its letterforms extend diagonally downward, character shapes depend heavily on context, and its ligatures and stacked structures are complex.
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The researchers built the Urdu Font-Twin Benchmark, rendering the same NFC-normalized, SHA-256-identical Urdu Unicode string in two fonts, Nastaliq and Naskh.
Nastaliq is the most mainstream script for Urdu, with glyphs extending diagonally downward, characters within words highly dependent on contextual shaping, an unstable horizontal baseline, and extremely complex ligatures and stacking structures.
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Nastaliq is the most mainstream script for Urdu, with glyphs extending diagonally downward, characters within words highly dependent on contextual shaping, an unstable horizontal baseline, and extremely complex ligatures and stacking structures.
50%UnverifiedThe researchers built the Urdu Font-Twin Benchmark, rendering the same NFC-normalized, SHA-256-identical Urdu Unicode string in two fonts, Nastaliq and Naskh.
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