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Scripts and fonts

How the platform writes, shows and searches every language it serves. Every font is self-hosted and openly licensed.

01The alphabets

Each with its chart, its letters, its digits and the languages written in it.

02Each language and the fonts that draw it

Checked at every build: a language whose letters a shipped font cannot draw stops the build.

LanguageScriptShown withTechnology support
Persian (Farsi) فارسیArabVazirmatnWell supported
South Azerbaijani (Azerbaijani Turkish) تۆرکجهArabVazirmatnPartly supported
Kurdish (Sorani, Kurmanji, Southern Kurdish) کوردی / KurdîArab/LatnEstedad, IBM Plex SansPartly supported
Gilaki گیلکیArabVazirmatnLow resource
Mazandarani مازرونیArabVazirmatnLow resource
Luri and Bakhtiari لۊریArabVazirmatnLow resource
Balochi بلۏچیArabVazirmatnLow resource
Talysh TolışiArab/LatnIBM Plex SansLow resource
Armenian (Iranian Armenian) ՀայերենArmnNoto Sans ArmenianWell supported
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic (Urmia) ܣܘܪܝܝܐSyrcNoto Sans Syriac EasternLow resource
Judeo-PersianHebrIBM Plex SansNot supported by major engines
Arabic (Khuzestani and Gulf Arabic) عربيArabVazirmatnWell supported
Turkmen Türkmençe / تۆرکمنArab/LatnIBM Plex Sans, VazirmatnPartly supported
Qashqai قشقاییArabVazirmatnLow resource
Khalaj خلجArabVazirmatnNot supported by major engines
Laki لکیArabEstedadNot supported by major engines
Lari (Achomi) اچمیArabVazirmatnNot supported by major engines
Semnani سمنانیArabVazirmatnNot supported by major engines
Tati (Takestani) تاتیArabVazirmatnNot supported by major engines
Hawrami (Gorani) هەورامیArabEstedadNot supported by major engines
Brahui براہوئیArabVazirmatnNot supported by major engines
Mandaic ࡌࡀࡍࡃࡀࡉࡀMandNoto Sans MandaicNot supported by major engines
Georgian (Fereydani) ქართულიGeorNoto Sans GeorgianPartly supported
Dari دریArabVazirmatnWell supported
Tajik ТоҷикӣCyrlIBM Plex SansPartly supported

03The fonts

  • Latin, Cyrillic and Greek: IBM Plex Sans and Mono, with Noto Sans for Kurdish Cyrillic letters.
  • Persian, Arabic, Dari and South Azerbaijani: Vazirmatn for text, Estedad for headings.
  • Kurdish in the Arabic-based script: Estedad, which carries every Kurdish letter.
  • Armenian, Georgian, Hebrew, Devanagari, Syriac and Mandaic: Noto Sans for each script.
  • Chinese, Japanese and Korean: the reader’s own system fonts.
  • All under the SIL Open Font License. No page asks a third party for a font.

04Standards

05Rules the platform follows

  • Persian keeps the zero-width non-joiner (U+200C) in words such as می‌روم
  • Search treats Arabic and Persian forms of kaf and yeh as the same letter
  • Dates show the Solar Hijri calendar alongside the Gregorian
  • Machine translation is only a labelled reading aid
  • Low-resource languages get human translation only
Cite this page
APA

Iranian Diaspora Cooperation & Development Council. (2026). Scripts and fonts. iranians.global. https://iranians.global/language/scripts/

Chicago

Iranian Diaspora Cooperation & Development Council. 2026. “Scripts and Fonts.” iranians.global. https://iranians.global/language/scripts/.

BibTeX
@misc{idcdc2026_language_scripts,
	author = {{Iranian Diaspora Cooperation \& Development Council}},
	year = {2026},
	note = {Licence: CC BY 4.0},
	title = {Scripts and fonts},
	url = {https://iranians.global/language/scripts/},
	howpublished = {https://iranians.global/language/scripts/},
}

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06Research and sources

Recent and relevant work on this page’s subject, from approved open scholarly sources. Metadata and links only. Titles stay as published. Not yet reviewed.

  1. Beyond Arabic: Software for Perso-Arabic Script Manipulation

    Alexander Gutkin, Cibu Johny, Raiomond Doctor et al. · 2022 · Proceedings of the Seventh Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP)

    ArticleCrossrefDataCitearXivOpen accessCC-BY-SA-4.0

  2. Graphemic Normalization of the Perso-Arabic Script

    Raiomond Doctor, Alexander Gutkin, Cibu Johny et al. · 2022 · Grapholinguistics and Its Applications

    ArticleCrossrefDataCitearXivOpen accessCC-BY-SA-4.0

  3. Does Script Matter? Evaluating Large Language Models for Urdu Sentiment Analysis across Nastaliq, Roman Urdu, and Code-Switched Text

    Yousaf Khawar Raja · 2026 · Zenodo

    PreprintZenodoOpen accessCC-BY-4.0

  4. {pdf download} Modern Persian Script Hacking: The optimal way to learn the Persian / Farsi alphabet by Judith Meyer

    Brigette Carter · 2026 · ResearchHub Technologies, Inc.

    ReportCrossref

  5. The Role of Religious Concepts in the Nastaliq Inscriptions of Safavid Monuments

    Farhad Khosravi Bizhaem · 2021 · پیکره

    ArticleDOAJOpen access

  6. Identifying and Introducing of Nastaliq Inscriptions Calligraphers in Safavids Monuments of Iran

    Farhad Khosravi Bizhaem · 2019 · نگره

    ArticleDOAJOpen access

  7. Design and Validation of the Novel Perso-Arabic Database in Shahmukhi Punjabi Script

    Humera Rafique, Dr. Tariq Javid · 2025 · Data Intelligence

    ArticleCrossref

  8. nastaliq, n. & adj.

    2023 · Oxford English Dictionary

    ChapterCrossref

  9. SMAjram: A Large-Scale Synthetic OCR Dataset for Punjabi Shahmukhi (Perso-Arabic) Script

    HUMERA RAFIQUE, TARIQ JAVID · 2025 · Ground Truth Files (AjramGTXL.Zip) Description (9 XL files inside) Sr. Ground Truth Files File Description 1 1_2_AjramGT_Primary File names and labels of Main a

    DatasetDataCiteZenodoOpen accessCC-BY-4.0

  10. A Comparative Study of the Dot’s Shape in Traditional Way of Nastaliq Script and Dot’s Implementation in Computer-based Types

    hoda kaspour, Abdolreza Charei · 2019 · نگره

    ArticleDOAJOpen access

  11. Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. al-Riyāḍ, Maktabah al-‘āmah al-sa’ūdīyah. Copy of the Qur’ān, in so-called Bihārī script, with interlinear Persian, from India, about 1500 CE.

    M Willis · 2019 · Zenodo

    OtherZenodoOpen accessCC-BY-4.0

  12. Toward semiotics of Nastaliq calligraphy

    Mahdiyeh Meidani · 2019 · Persian Calligraphy

    ChapterCrossref

Sources, licences and fetch dates: arXiv (Metadata CC0 1.0; papers under their own licences), 2026-10-23; Crossref (Metadata facts, any use; abstracts may be publisher-owned and are never shown), 2026-10-23; DataCite (CC0 1.0 (DataCite metadata)), 2026-10-23; DOAJ (Metadata CC0 1.0 (DOAJ); articles under their own open licences), 2026-10-23; Zenodo (Metadata CC0 1.0; each record under its own licence), 2026-10-23.