Naskh is a small, round script of Islamic calligraphy. Naskh is one of the first scripts of Islamic calligraphy to develop, commonly used in writing administrative documents and for transcribing books, including the Qur’an, because of its easy legibility.

Origin
Manuscript of Malik’s Muwatta in soft, flowing Naskh script
the earliest manuscript of Mālik’s Muwaṭṭaʾ, dated to his own time. has the contents of Bāb al-Targib fī-Sadaqah, Manuscript of Malik’s Muwatta in soft, flowing Naskh scriptIn the second century AH
The Naskh style of writing can be found as early as within the first century of the Islamic calendar. The Naskh script was established in the first century of the Hijri calendar by order of Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan due to the presence of defects in the Kufic script.Two centuries before it was recorded by Ibn Muqla Like Al-Muwatta written by Malik ibn Anas in a soft, rounded script

Ibn Muqla is credited with standardizing the “Six Pens” of Islamic calligraphy, also including thuluth, tawqi’, riqaaʿ, muhaqqaq, and rayhani.These are known as “the proportioned scripts” (al-khatt al-mansub) or “the six scripts” (al-aqlam al-sitta).

Kufic is commonly believed to predate naskh, but historians have traced the two scripts as coexisting long before their codification by Ibn Muqla, as the two served different purposes. Kufi was used primarily in decoration, while Naskh served for everyday scribal use..The Naskh script is believed to have existed since the first century of the Islamic calendar.

Description
The alif is written as a straight stroke, bending to the lower left.Naskh differentiates various sounds through the use of diacritical points, in the form of 1–3 dots above or below the letter, which makes the script more easily legible. Naskh uses a horizontal base line; in situations where one character starts within the tail of the preceding letter, the base line is broken and raised.In sixteenth-century Constantinople, Şeyh Hamdullah (1429–1520) redesigned the structure of naskh, along with the other “Six Pens”, in order to make the script appear more precise and less heavy.

Use
The script is what is normally used electronically and as the default typeface.

Naskh allowed for the development of decorative elements into more supple, rounded designs, away from the common use of squared kufic in decoration. Naskh’s use in architecture first began in the tenth century and had been adopted in many Muslim countries by the eleventh century.