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Introduction

Sindhi

The Sindhi language is used in parts of Pakistan and India. Sindhi is one of India's "official" languages. It is generally written using a form of Arabic script although Devanagari script is often used by Hindus. This page covers only those fonts that support Sindhi using Arabic script.

Several letters specific to Sindhi were added to the Urdu script, which itself is an adaptation of Persian and Arabic scripts.

Arabic script is written from right-to-left but numbers are written from left-to-right. Numerals vary by language and Unicode has set aside two ranges for Arabic script numbers: "Arabic-Indic digits" (U+0660 - U+0669) for use with the Arabic language and "Eastern Arabic-Indic digits" (U+06F0 - U+06F9) for use with all other languages that employ Arabic script.

Since Arabic script is cursive, the appearance of a letter changes depending on its context/position: isolated, initial (joined on the left), medial (joined on both sides), and final (joined on the right). Arabic codepoints in the U+0600 - U+06FF range represent all of the letters without regard to their position. It is up to the font to show the letter with the proper appearance. For compatibility with existing standards, Unicode also defined codepoints with explicit positions for most letters (ARABIC PRESENTATION FORMS-A & -B), although use of these characters is discouraged. Likewise, explicit ligatures are also encoded in the PRESENTATION blocks.

Parkari

The Parkari language is used in parts of Pakistan and utilizes the same script as Sinhdi with the addition of three letters. These letters were added with Unicode version 4.0, so very few fonts support them. Assume the font does not include the Parkari-specific letters unless Parkari is noted along with Arabic script in the Support line. The samples here do not use any of the Parkari-specific letters.

Font Samples

font sample * font information
Sample of Ajrak Sindhi at 38pt Ajrak Sindhi    [ show all samples ]  (Ajrak Sindhi.ttf)
Note: Sindhi glyphs used for both Arabic-Indic (U+0660 - U+0669) and Eastern Arabic-Indic (U+06F0 - U+06F9) digits.
Source: Free download from the Pakistani Typography Yahoo group's "files" directory (after joining).
Stats: Version 1.00 has 345 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Arabic script (Sindhi only), Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic
Sample of Arabic Typesetting at 36pt Arabic Typesetting    [ show all samples ]  (arabtype.volt.ttf)
Note: Includes VOLT tables.
Source: Available from the Microsoft VOLT users community. Once you sign up, download the "Volt supplemental files" self-extracting archive (voltsupplementalfiles.exe) listed under "What's New". A later, more complete version comes with Microsoft Office Proofing Tools 2003.
Stats: Version 0.3 2001 has 1,901 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Arabic script (Arabic, Ajami, Azeri, Balochi, Berber, Brahui, Kazakh, Kirghiz Kurdish, Jawi, Pashto, Persian, Shahmukhi, Sindhi, Uighur, Urdu, Uzbek), Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic (default, zz01)
Sample of Arial at 30pt Arial    [ show all samples ]  (arial.ttf, arialbd.ttf, arialbi.ttf and ariali.ttf)
Source: Supplied with the Windows XP SP2 (service pack 2) update. Older versions were supplied with various Microsoft products and the Smart package of Microsoft's core fonts project.
Stats: Version 3.00 has 1,674 glyphs and 909 kerning pairs
Support: Arabic script (Arabic, Ajami, Azeri, Balochi, Berber, Brahui, Kazakh, Kirghiz Kurdish, Lahnda, Jawi, Pashto, Persian, Shahmukhi, Sindhi, Uighur, Urdu, Uzbek), Cyrillic (Russian plus other Slavic and non-Slavic languages), Greek, Hebrew, Latin, Vietnamese.
Warning: Versions prior to 3.00 supported only the Arabic letters used for Arabic and Persian languages.
OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic (default, MAR)
Sample of Ayaz Gul at 30pt Ayaz Gul    [ show all samples ]  (ayazgul.ttf)
Note: Sindhi glyphs for Eastern Arabic-Indic digits (U+06F0 - U+06F9) are also used for European (U+0030 - U+0039) and Arabic-Indic (U+0660 - U+0669) digits.
Source: Free download from the Pakistani Typography Yahoo group's "Fonts" directory (after joining).
Stats: Version 1.0 has 362 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Arabic script (Sindhi only)
OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic
Sample of BPG Glaho Arial V5 Big at 30pt BPG Glaho Arial V5 Big    [ show all samples ]  (BPG_Glaho_Arial_V5_big.ttf)
Note: There is also a BPG-specific font called "Arial Unicode MS" (BPG_Glaho_Arial_Unicode_MS_V5.ttf) with similar Unicode range support as BPG Glaho Arial V5 Big.
Source: Free download from either the shavlego file area or the bpgfonts file area.
Stats: Version 3.00 has 1,757 glyphs and 1,172 kerning pairs
Support: Arabic script (Arabic, Ajami, Azeri, Balochi, Berber, Brahui, Kashmiri, Kazakh, Kirghiz Kurdish, Lahnda, Jawi, Pashto, Persian, Shahmukhi, Sindhi, Uighur, Urdu, Uzbek), Cyrillic (Russian plus other Slavic and non-Slavic languages), Georgian (Mkhedruli), Greek, Hebrew, Latin, Vietnamese
OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic (...), Latin
Sample of Lateef at 36pt Lateef    [ show all samples ]  (LateefRegOT.ttf)
Source: Free download from SIL International's Arabic script Unicode font page.
Stats: Version 1.0rc1 build 117/117 has 1,147 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Arabic script (Arabic, Ajami, Azeri, Balochi, Berber, Brahui, Kashmiri, Kazakh, Kirghiz Kurdish, Lahnda, Jawi, Parkari, Pashto, Persian, Shahmukhi, Sindhi, Uighur, Urdu, Uzbek; Also includes letters in the "Arabic Supplement" block), Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic (default, Kurdish, Sindhi, Urdu), Latin
Sample of Mangrio-Aziz-Outline-PJG at 26pt Mangrio-Aziz-Outline-PJG    [ show all samples ]  (Mangrio-Aziz_Outline-PJG.ttf)
Note: Arabic glyphs for Arabic-Indic digits (U+0660 - U+0669) are also used for Eastern Arabic-Indic (U+06F0 - U+06F9) digits.
Source: Free download on the "Voice of Sindh" website.
Stats: Version 1.00 February 17 2006 has 345 glyphs and 6,685 kerning pairs
Support: Arabic script (Sindhi only), Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic
Sample of Mangrio-Aziz_Bashir_bhand_Wow at 24pt Mangrio-Aziz_Bashir_bhand_Wow    [ show all samples ]  (Mangrio_Aziz_Bashir_bhand_Wow.ttf)
Note: Arabic glyphs for Arabic-Indic digits (U+0660 - U+0669) are also used for Eastern Arabic-Indic (U+06F0 - U+06F9) digits.
Source: Free download on the "Voice of Sindh" website.
Stats: Version 1.00 April 24, 2006 has 386 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Arabic script (Sindhi only), Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic
Sample of Mangrio-Aziz_Herodep at 30pt Mangrio-Aziz_Herodep    [ show all samples ]  (Mangrio-Aziz_Herodep.ttf)
Note: Sindhi glyphs used for both Arabic-Indic (U+0660 - U+0669) and Eastern Arabic-Indic (U+06F0 - U+06F9) digits.
Source: Free download on the "Voice of Sindh" website.
Stats: Version 1.0 February 25 2006 has 386 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Arabic script (Sindhi only), Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic
Sample of Mangrio-Aziz_Hindi at 30pt Mangrio-Aziz_Hindi    [ show all samples ]  (Mangrio-Aziz_Hindi.ttf)
Note: Arabic glyphs for Arabic-Indic digits (U+0660 - U+0669) are also used for Eastern Arabic-Indic (U+06F0 - U+06F9) digits.
Source: Free download on the "Voice of Sindh" website.
Stats: Version 1.00 February 27 2006 has 386 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Arabic script (Sindhi only), Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic
Sample of Mangrio-Aziz_I-Chini at 30pt Mangrio-Aziz_I-Chini    [ show all samples ]  (Mangrio-Aziz_I-Chini.ttf)
Note: Arabic glyphs for Arabic-Indic digits (U+0660 - U+0669) are also used for Eastern Arabic-Indic (U+06F0 - U+06F9) digits.
Source: Free download on the "Voice of Sindh" website.
Stats: Version 1.0 February 24 2006 has 387 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Arabic script (Sindhi only), Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic
Sample of Mangrio-Aziz_Point-PJG at 28pt Mangrio-Aziz_Point-PJG    [ show all samples ]  (Mangrio-Aziz_Point-PJG.ttf)
Note: Arabic glyphs used for Arabic-Indic digits (U+0660 - U+0669) but European digits are used for Eastern Arabic-Indic digits (U+06F0 - U+06F9).
Source: Free download on the "Voice of Sindh" website.
Stats: Version 1.00 March 1 2006 has 387 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Arabic script (Sindhi only), Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic
Sample of Mangrio_Aziz_Aftab_Talpur_Stylish at 34pt Mangrio_Aziz_Aftab_Talpur_Stylish    [ show all samples ]  (Mangrio_Aziz_Aftab_Talpur_Stylish.ttf)
Note: Uses Persian style digits for Arabic-Indic digits (U+0660 - U+0669).
Source: Free download on the "Voice of Sindh" website.
Stats: Version 1.00 August 7 2006 has 386 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Arabic script (Sindhi only), Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic
Sample of Mangrio_Aziz_Dharejo_Dedar_Wood at 22pt Mangrio_Aziz_Dharejo_Dedar_Wood    [ show all samples ]  (Mangrio_Aziz_Dharejo_Dedar_Wood.ttf)
Note: Arabic glyphs for Arabic-Indic digits (U+0660 - U+0669) are also used for Eastern Arabic-Indic (U+06F0 - U+06F9) digits.
Source: Free download on the "Voice of Sindh" website.
Stats: Version 1.00 April 24, 2006 has 386 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Arabic script (Sindhi only), Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic
Sample of Mangrio_Aziz_Hizbullah_junejo_S at 22pt Mangrio_Aziz_Hizbullah_junejo_S    [ show all samples ]  (Mangrio_Aziz_Hizbullah_junejo_Silim.ttf)
Note: Arabic glyphs for Arabic-Indic digits (U+0660 - U+0669) are also used for Eastern Arabic-Indic (U+06F0 - U+06F9) digits.
Source: Free download on the "Voice of Sindh" website.
Stats: Version 1.00 July 7th 2006 has 386 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Arabic script (Sindhi only), Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic
Sample of Mangrio_Aziz_Voiceofsindh.net_L at 34pt Mangrio_Aziz_Voiceofsindh.net_L    [ show all samples ]  (Mangrio_Aziz_Voiceofsindh.net_Love.ttf)
Note: Persian glyphs for Eastern Arabic-Indic digits (U+06F0 - U+06F9) are also used for European (U+0030 - U+0039) and Arabic-Indic (U+0660 - U+0669) digits.
Source: Free download on the "Voice of Sindh" website.
Stats: Version 1.00 July 19 2006 has 386 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Arabic script (Sindhi only), Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic
Sample of MB Agha Sabir at 28pt MB Agha Sabir    [ show all samples ]  (MB Agha Sabir.ttf)
Note: Sindhi glyphs used for Eastern Arabic-Indic digits (U+06F0 - U+06F9).
Source: Free download from the "Fonts" section of Agha Muhammad Sabir's website.
Stats: Version (?) has 363 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Arabic script (Sindhi only), Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic
Sample of MB Agha Sabir Indus at 30pt MB Agha Sabir Indus    [ show all samples ]  (MB Agha Sabir Indus.ttf)
Note: Sindhi glyphs used for Eastern Arabic-Indic digits (U+06F0 - U+06F9).
Source: Free download from the "Fonts" section of Agha Muhammad Sabir's website.
Stats: Version (?) has 363 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Arabic script (Sindhi only), Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic
Sample of MB Agha Sabir Shikarpur at 28pt MB Agha Sabir Shikarpur    [ show all samples ]  (MB Agha Sabir Shikarpur.ttf)
Note: Sindhi glyphs used for Eastern Arabic-Indic digits (U+06F0 - U+06F9).
Source: Free download on the "Voice of Sindh" website.
Stats: Version (?) has 363 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Arabic script (Sindhi only), Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic
Sample of MB Bhitai Sattar at 28pt MB Bhitai Sattar    [ show all samples ]  (MBBhitaiSS5.ttf)
Note: Sindhi glyphs used for Arabic-Indic digits (U+0660 - U+0669).
Source: Free download on the "Voice of Sindh" website.
Stats: Version 1.00 2002 has 345 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Arabic script (Sindhi only), Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic
Sample of MB Kufi at 28pt MB Kufi    [ show all samples ]  (MB Kufi.ttf)
Note: Arabic glyphs for Arabic-Indic digits (U+0660 - U+0669) are also used for Eastern Arabic-Indic (U+06F0 - U+06F9) digits.
Source: Free download on the "Voice of Sindh" website.
Stats: Version 2.0 December 2004 has 386 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Arabic script (Sindhi only), Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic
Sample of MB Lateefi at 28pt MB Lateefi    [ show all samples ]  (MBLateefi.otf from MBSindhi2004.zip)
Note: Sindhi glyphs used for Eastern Arabic-Indic digits (U+06F0 - U+06F9).
Source: Free download on the "Voice of Sindh" website.
Stats: Version 2.1 July 2004 has 287 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Arabic script (Sindhi only), Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic
Sample of MB LateefiM Sattar at 28pt MB LateefiM Sattar    [ show all samples ]  (MBLateefiM.ttf)
Note: Sindhi glyphs used for Arabic-Indic digits (U+0660 - U+0669).
Source: Free download on the "Voice of Sindh" website.
Stats: Version 1.00 2003 has 345 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Arabic script (Sindhi only), Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic
Sample of MB Sindhi Web at 28pt MB Sindhi Web    [ show all samples ]  (MBSindhiWeb.otf from MBSindhi2004.zip)
Style: Punctuation and Latin characters also use a script style.
Note: Urdu glyphs used for Eastern Arabic-Indic digits (U+06F0 - U+06F9). No Arabic-Indic digits (U+0660 - U+0669).
Source: Free download on the "Voice of Sindh" website.
Stats: Version 1.00 June 16, 2004 has 328 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Arabic script (Sindhi only), Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic
Sample of MBLateefiBold Sattar at 24pt MBLateefiBold Sattar    [ show all samples ]  (MBLateefiBold.ttf)
Note: Sindhi glyphs used for Arabic-Indic digits (U+0660 - U+0669).
Source: Free download on the "Voice of Sindh" website.
Stats: Version (blank) has 345 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Arabic script (Sindhi only), Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic
Sample of MBSania at 30pt MBSania    [ show all samples ]  (MBSania.ttf)
Note: European digits also used for Arabic-Indic (U+0660 - U+0669) and Eastern Arabic-Indic (U+06F0 - U+06F9) digits.
Source: Free download on the "Voice of Sindh" website.
Stats: Version (blank) has 345 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Arabic script (Sindhi only), Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic
Sample of MBSarang Sattar at 28pt MBSarang Sattar    [ show all samples ]  (MBSarang.ttf)
Note: Sindhi glyphs used for Arabic-Indic digits (U+0660 - U+0669).
Source: Free download on the "Voice of Sindh" website.
Stats: Version (blank) has 345 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Arabic script (Sindhi only), Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic
Sample of MBSindhi at 28pt MBSindhi    [ show all samples ]  (MBSindhi_UC1.ttf)
Note: Sindhi glyphs used for Eastern Arabic-Indic digits (U+06F0 - U+06F9).
Source: Free download from the Sindhi Computing MSN Group (after joining). Click on the "Fonts, Keyboards, Installers" link.
Also available from the "Fonts" section of Agha Muhammad Sabir's website. (Download "all Sindhi fonts".)
Stats: Version 1.0 2000 has 362 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Arabic script (Sindhi only), Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic
Sample of Microsoft Sans Serif at 26pt Microsoft Sans Serif    [ show all samples ]  (micross.ttf)
Source: Supplied with Windows XP SP2 (service pack 2). Older versions were supplied with Windows XP and Windows 2000.
Stats: Version 1.41 has 2,257 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Arabic script (Arabic, Ajami, Azeri, Balochi, Berber, Brahui, Kazakh, Kirghiz Kurdish, Lahnda, Jawi, Pashto, Persian, Shahmukhi, Sindhi, Uighur, Urdu, Uzbek), Cyrillic (all or most of range), Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Hebrew, Latin (basic and beyond), Thai, Vietnamese
Warning: IPA, Greek polytonic, Greek Coptic, and many Cyrillic characters were only added with version 1.41.
OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic (default, MAR)
Sample of Nafees Pakistani Naskh at 24pt Nafees Pakistani Naskh    [ show all samples ]  (Nafees_Pakistani_Naskh.ttf)
Note: Uses Urdu style glyphs for Eastern Arabic-Indic (U+06F0 - U+06F9) and European (U+0030 - U+0039) digits.
Source: Free download from the Center for Research in Urdu Language Processing (CRULP).
Stats: Version 002.000 has 745 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Arabic script (Arabic, Azeri, Balochi, Pashto, Persian, Shahmukhi, Sindhi, Urdu)
OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic
Sample of PakType Naqsh at 26pt PakType Naqsh    [ show all samples ]  (PakType Naqsh 2.2.ttf)
Style is handwritten.
Source: Free download from the Pakistani Typography (PakType) Project.
Stats: Version 2.2 has 1,849 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Arabic script (Arabic, Ajami, Azeri, Balochi, Berber, Brahui, Kashmiri, Kazakh, Kirghiz Kurdish, Lahnda, Jawi, Parkari, Pashto, Persian, Shahmukhi, Sindhi, Uighur, Urdu, Uzbek), IPA, Latin, Vietnamese
OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic
Sample of PakType Tehreer at 26pt PakType Tehreer    [ show all samples ]  (PakType-Tehreer1.3.ttf)
Source: Free download from the Pakistani Typography (PakType) Project.
Stats: Version 1.3 has 869 glyphs and 480 kerning pairs
Support: Arabic script (Arabic, Ajami, Azeri, Balochi, Berber, Brahui, Kashmiri, Kazakh, Kirghiz Kurdish, Lahnda, Jawi, Parkari, Pashto, Persian, Shahmukhi, Sindhi, Uighur, Urdu, Uzbek; Also includes letters in the "Arabic Supplement" block)
OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic (default, Sindhi, Urdu)
Sample of Qalamkar 0.01 at 28pt Qalamkar 0.01    [ show all samples ]  (Qalamkar0.01.ttf)
Note: Sindhi glyphs for Eastern Arabic-Indic digits (U+06F0 - U+06F9) are also used for European (U+0030 - U+0039) and Arabic-Indic (U+0660 - U+0669) digits.
Source: Free download from the Pakistani Typography Yahoo group's "Fonts" directory (after joining).
Stats: Version 1.0 has 362 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Arabic script (Sindhi only)
OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic
Sample of Riwaj at 22pt Riwaj    [ show all samples ]  (Riwaj.ttf)
Note: Contains no European digits (U+0030 - U+0039).
Source: Free download from the Hifazat e Quran site.
Stats: Version 1.1 has 581 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Arabic script (Arabic, Ajami, Azeri, Balochi, Berber, Brahui, Kashmiri, Kazakh, Kirghiz Kurdish, Lahnda, Jawi, Pashto, Persian, Shahmukhi, Sindhi, Uighur, Urdu, Uzbek)
OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic
Sample of Scheherazade at 36pt Scheherazade    [ show all samples ]  (ScheherazadeRegOT.ttf)
Source: Free download from SIL International's Arabic script Unicode font page.
Stats: Version 1.0rc1 build 117/117 has 1,197 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Arabic script (Arabic, Ajami, Azeri, Balochi, Berber, Brahui, Kashmiri, Kazakh, Kirghiz Kurdish, Lahnda, Jawi, Parkari, Pashto, Persian, Shahmukhi, Sindhi, Uighur, Urdu, Uzbek; Also includes letters in the "Arabic Supplement" block), Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic (default, Kurdish, Sindhi, Urdu)
Sample of Tahoma at 22pt Tahoma    [ show all samples ]  (tahoma.ttf and tahomabd.ttf)
Source: Comes with Microsoft's Windows XP and Windows 2000.
Stats: Version 3.14 has 2,034 glyphs and 674 kerning pairs
Support: Arabic script (Arabic, Ajami, Azeri, Balochi, Berber, Brahui, Kazakh, Kirghiz Kurdish, Lahnda, Jawi, Pashto, Persian, Shahmukhi, Sindhi, Uighur, Urdu, Uzbek), Cyrillic (Russian plus other Slavic and non-Slavic languages), Greek (including polytonic), Hebrew, Latin, Thai, Vietnamese
OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic
Sample of Times New Roman at 28pt Times New Roman    [ show all samples ]  (times.ttf, timesbd.ttf, timesbi.ttf and timesi.ttf)
Source: Supplied with the Windows XP SP2 (service pack 2) update. Older versions were supplied with various Microsoft products and the Smart package of Microsoft's core fonts project.
Stats: Version 3.00 has 1,674 glyphs and 867 kerning pairs
Support: Arabic script (Arabic, Ajami, Azeri, Balochi, Berber, Brahui, Kazakh, Kirghiz Kurdish, Lahnda, Jawi, Pashto, Persian, Shahmukhi, Sindhi, Uighur, Urdu, Uzbek), Cyrillic (Russian plus other Slavic and non-Slavic languages), Greek, Hebrew, Latin, Vietnamese.
Warning: Versions prior to 3.00 supported only the Arabic letters used for Arabic and Persian languages.
OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic (default, MAR)
 

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