Constantia
Tiro Typeworks · John Hudson
A humanist serif designed by John Hudson for Microsoft, sold here as a standalone retail release with four styles covering Latin, Cyrillic and Greek.
About
Originally commissioned by Microsoft as part of their ClearType font collection, Constantia was designed by John Hudson of Tiro Typeworks for optimised on-screen legibility at small sizes. The four-style family covers Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic, with a glyph set of over 1,200 characters spanning Latin Extended, Cyrillic and Greek scripts. It sits comfortably in text-heavy editorial and document work where screen rendering quality matters.
Classification
Constantia is a humanist serif designed for on-screen legibility at small sizes, with relatively low contrast and open letterforms characteristic of the genre.