Download the best and the most popular Unicode and ANSI Urdu fonts for FREE. Our Urdu fonts are supported on Windows, Mac and Linux Operating systems. In addition, get a link to Google web fonts and use them on Websites by adding them either on CSS or JavaScript files.
There are many Unicode Urdu fonts available for free download. Below are some of the most popular Urdu Unicode Fonts.
Download ANSI fonts and start typing in Urdu straightaway.
Google have following popular Urdu web font that can be used on the website by adding either CSS or JavaScript into source code.
Open the Windows Explorer and go to C:\Windows\Fonts directory. Then go
to Control Panel, click on Fonts, click on "Install New Fonts" and finally go to
the directory where you have downloaded and extracted the font file.
Select all the Urdu fonts and click ok. This will install the required fonts.
After installation, you should now be able to see the Urdu fonts on Microsoft Word or any other program that supports text processing
If you are unable to see the installed font, you might need to restart the computer.
Both ANSI and UTF-8 are character encoding formats. ANSI is a Microsoft-specific standard mainly used to encode Latin alphabets, whereas UTF-8 is an implementation of Unicode that supports more than 128,000 characters.
Unicode is a universal character encoding standard. It defines how individual characters are represented in web pages, text files, and documents.
There are different types of Unicode encoding, with UTF-8 and UTF-16 being the most common. UTF-8 is widely used on the web and is the default encoding standard in many software programs.
UTF-8 encoding can use up to four bytes to represent a character. For English letters, UTF-8 uses one byte. European (Latin), Hebrew, and Arabic characters typically use two bytes. Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and other Asian characters use three bytes, while certain special symbols may require four bytes.
To do this you need to first download ANSI fonts from one the link above. After this, you can open any text editor such as Microsoft Word, select Urdu font you have downloaded earlier and start typing.
Typing in Urdu can be difficult using a Roman keyboard. To help you with the mapping of Urdu letters we have a keyboard layout. You can download this by visiting this link.