Manqoosh is a regular Urdu font designed to offer a refined appearance with monospaced letters. The font was released on January 30, 2016, by designer Amanat Ali Goher. Inspired by the Naskh script, this font has a horizontal influence, lending it a balanced and overall elegant appearance. Offering a wide range of characters, comprising 381 characters and 326 glyphs, the font maintains a consistent weight throughout, making it suitable for various typographic applications. Its strokes are strong yet dynamic, with contrasting thick and thin strokes that enhance readability and visual appeal.
Ideal for both long textual blocks and shorter snippets, Manqoosh offers high legibility on screens, ensuring ease of reading for users. The font’s moderate thickness and regular letterform contribute to its formal appearance, making it suitable for creative posters, book covers, branding, newspapers, and official documents. Moreover, it has soft corners and diagonal edges that resemble traditional Qalam writing. Its Unicode blocks cover Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, Spacing Modifier Letters, Greek and Coptic, Arabic, General Punctuation, Currency Symbols, Letterlike Symbols, Mathematical Operators, Arabic Presentation Forms-A, and Arabic Presentation Forms-B, ensuring compatibility across various platforms and languages.
