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Canto Light

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Canto Light Italic

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Canto Regular

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Canto Regular Italic

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Canto Semi Bold

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Canto Semi Bold Italic

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Canto Bold

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Canto Bold Italic

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Canto

Canto is a series of typefaces inspired by Edward M. Catich’s seminal thesis on the origins of the Roman inscriptional style, such as that found on Trajan’s column. Richard Lipton’s design traces the path from an expressive, preparatory Brush (with Brush Open to preserve gestural details at smaller sizes), through informal Pen, to the formal Roman. Classical capitals are accompanied by Lipton’s own calligraphic lowercase, small caps, and swashes.

Designed by

  • Richard Lipton

Language Support

  • Catalan
  • Croatian
  • Czech
  • Danish
  • Dutch
  • English
  • Filipino
  • Finnish
  • French
  • Fula
  • German
  • Hungarian
  • Indonesian
  • Italian
  • Latvian
  • Malay
  • Maltese
  • Norwegian
  • Polish
  • Portuguese
  • Romanian
  • Slovak
  • Slovenian
  • Spanish
  • Swedish
  • Turkish

OpenType Features

  • Common Ligatures
  • Discretionary Ligatures
  • Fractions
  • Lining Numerals
  • Old Style Numerals
  • Ordinal Numerals
  • Ornaments
  • Small Capitals
  • Small Capitals for Capitals
  • Stylistic Alternates
  • Stylistic Sets
  • Superscript
  • Swashes


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Uppercase Letter Latin

Uppercase Letter Greek

Lowercase Letter Latin

Lowercase Letter

Lowercase Letter Greek

Modifier Letter

Other Letter Latin

Nonspacing Mark Inherited

Decimal Number

Other Number

Connector Punctuation

Dash Punctuation

Close Punctuation

Final Punctuation

Initial Punctuation

Other Punctuation

Open Punctuation

Currency Symbol

Modifier Symbol

Math Symbol

Other Symbol

Ligatures

Discretionary Ligatures

Ornaments

Stylistic Alternates

Swashes

Stylistic Set 1

Stylistic Set 2

Fractions

Oldstyle Figures

Ordinals

Superscript

Small Capitals

Small Capitals from Capitals

Case-Sensitive Forms