Commercial · Serif · Klim Type Foundry
Financier Display
Financier Display is a licensed font from Klim Type Foundry: $60 USD, as printed on the foundry or reseller’s page on 2026-09-05. The 3 open-licence families below are suggested in its place, each with the basis for the substitution.
The name above is set in a fallback face. Financier Display is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- Kris Sowersby
- Released
- 2016
- Styles
- 12
- Classification
- Serif
- Price
- $60 USD (base price for the first font style; each subsequent style is discounted (from the Klim FAQs page)) — as printed, read 2026-09-05
- Trial
- The foundry offers a trial download.
A serif drawn for the 2014 redesign of the Financial Times, taking its display forms from Eric Gill's Perpetua, with narrow, slightly inclined italics. 12 styles.
Free alternatives to Financier Display
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Financier Display is not on this machine, so these were chosen by what is known about it — classification, lineage, common use — and each is labelled with that basis. Open one to see its measured character and neighbours.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Libre Baskerville webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Libre Baskerville.
same classification
A transitional serif with the British reserve Financier Display draws on; Baskerville has rounder forms than the Perpetua-derived Financier.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Playfair Display webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Playfair Display.
same classification
A display serif with high contrast in similar weights; Didone in flavour rather than Gill-inspired.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Cormorant Garamond webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Cormorant Garamond.
same classification
A refined display serif with fine hairlines; old-style rather than transitional.
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