Commercial · Serif · Klim Type Foundry
Heldane Text
Heldane Text 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. Heldane Text 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
- 2018
- Styles
- 6
- 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 contemporary Garalde serif that amalgamates details from van den Keere, Garamont, Granjon and de Colines rather than reviving one face. Heldane Display is the companion; the text family has 6 styles.
Free alternatives to Heldane Text
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Heldane Text 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 EB Garamond webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not EB Garamond.
derived
An open revival of Garamont's types, one of the direct sources Heldane draws on; more faithful and less unified than Heldane's synthesis.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Cormorant Garamond webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Cormorant Garamond.
same classification
A Garamond-derived serif with fine details; better at display sizes than Heldane Text's sturdier text cut.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Crimson Pro webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Crimson Pro.
same classification
An old-style text serif in the same Renaissance tradition; less historically specific.
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