Continuo
LetTerforms compoSed of a single, contINuoUs line.
Designed by Delve Withrington
Story
Continuo is a fascinating, all-uppercase display typeface wherein each letterform is designed with a single, continuous line. The challenges presented by that simple idea are similar to constructing letterforms with neon tubing. For example, when the strokes of a letterform are heavier than the width of the neon tube, two tubes are employed to create the outer contours, effectively leaving an unfilled void inside the stroke. Also, since neon tubes cannot be broken apart as they trace the contours, they must follow a path that, for reasons of economy and to avoid optical massing (or bright spots in neon), the tubes are not crossed. So too, the construction of Continuo follows.
The newly updated Continuo now has alternate forms of letters A-Z available in the lowercase a-z and by extension those alternates are also present in the lowercase diacritics. The new Latin Plus glyph repertoire of Continuo contains almost 900 glyphs, supporting 224 languages, including Vietnamese and multiple African languages. A handy set of arrows and additional international currency symbols were added as well.
The name is derived from the musical term “Basso Continuo” meaning an almost constant bass line, an integral part of most musical melodies.
As an in-line display type, Continuo is ideal for headlines and most oversized applications and its unique appearance commands attention from viewers.
Features
Additional features include: Localized Forms, Subscript, Superscript, Numerators, Denominators, Fractions, Ordinals, Case-Sensitive Forms, and Slashed Zero.
Glyphs
Basic Latin 94
Latin-1 Supplement 95
Latin Extended-A 127
Latin Extended-B 143
IPA Extensions 24
Spacing Modifier Letters 9
Combining Diacritical Marks 30
Greek and Coptic 1
Latin Extended Additional 246
General Punctuation 17
Currency Symbols 16
Letterlike Symbols 2
Arrows 10
Mathematical Operators 14
Geometric Shapes 1
Alphabetic Presentation Forms 5
Latin Extended-C 4
Latin Extended-D 4
Continuo supports 225 languages. View our language support page to see which.