Al Qalam Shahzaib is a modern, fat, filled, and wide Urdu font released on January 30, 2016. It was designed by font designers Attari Qadri and Muhammad Ishtiaq Ali Attari from Faisalabad, Pakistan. Inspired by the Naskh script with modern influences, this font style embodies a fat, filled, and wide aesthetic with small negative spaces. With a glyph count of 497 and 444 characters and symbols, it offers extensive language compatibility, including Urdu, Arabic, Latin, Persian, and more.
The font features a dynamic thickness and impactful, changing strokes, adding visual interest to its decorative appearance. While it’s best suited for short text due to readability challenges over longer periods, it finds applications in branding, advertising, logos, Quran writing, invitations, and gift cards. Vertical characters are mostly straight but have decorative elements like pointy edges and sharp corners. Letters are wide and highly decorative, with non-constant spacing between letters. Despite its decorative nature, Al Qalam Shahzaib maintains high legibility on screens, making it suitable for various design projects where visual impact is desired.
