Commercial · Serif · Klim Type Foundry
Signifier
Signifier 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. Signifier 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
- 2020
- Styles
- 14
- 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 Brutalist response to the 17th-century Fell Types, recast with deliberately digital Bézier curves and sharp vectors. Classified by Klim as a modern old-style; 14 styles.
Free alternatives to Signifier
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Signifier 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 IM Fell English webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not IM Fell English.
same classification
A direct digitisation of the Fell Types that Signifier reinterprets; it keeps the rough printed texture Signifier deliberately sharpens away.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Libre Caslon Text webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Libre Caslon Text.
same classification
A 17th/18th-century-flavoured text serif with comparable sturdiness; more conventional in its curves.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The EB Garamond webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not EB Garamond.
same classification
An old-style serif of the same broad tradition; softer and more calligraphic than Signifier's machined forms.
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