Sindhi, one of the oldest languages of the Indus Valley, is spoken by over 30 million people worldwide—primarily in Pakistan’s Sindh province and India’s Gujarat and Rajasthan. Unlike many other Indo-Aryan languages, Sindhi uses an extended Perso-Arabic script (Naskh style) with additional diacritical marks and letters to represent its unique phonetics (e.g., ڄ, ڃ, ڌ, ڙ).
During the 2010s, a grassroots movement called emerged on social media. Young typographers began creating open-source fonts (e.g., "Mithi", "Thar") that combined the legibility of Naskh with the organic joins of Nastaliq. These hybrid fonts represent a new aesthetic—neither colonial nor purely classical—born of digital necessity. sindhi font styles