diff --git a/lisp/faces.el b/lisp/faces.el
index c69339e2fdc..29e26e4c651 100644
--- a/lisp/faces.el
+++ b/lisp/faces.el
@@ -47,7 +47,8 @@ the terminal-initialization file to be loaded."
     ("vt400" . "vt200")
     ("vt420" . "vt200")
     ("alacritty" . "xterm")
-    ("foot" . "xterm"))
+    ("foot" . "xterm")
+    ("contour" . "xterm"))
   "Alist of terminal type aliases.
 Entries are of the form (TYPE . ALIAS), where both elements are strings.
 This means to treat a terminal of type TYPE as if it were of type ALIAS."