Commercial · Serif · Klim Type Foundry
Tiempos Text
Tiempos 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. Tiempos 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
- 2010
- Styles
- 8
- 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 for editorial text that updates the functionality of Plantin and Times for contemporary use. Klim classes it as transitional/realist; 8 styles from Regular to Bold with italics, plus a variable font.
Free alternatives to Tiempos Text
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Tiempos 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 Tinos webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Tinos.
same classification
A Times-pattern serif, and Tiempos Text starts from Plantin and Times; Tinos is narrower and lacks Tiempos's contemporary sturdiness.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Source Serif 4 webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Source Serif 4.
same classification
A transitional text serif with optical sizes and a full weight range; its details are crisper and less Plantin-like.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The PT Serif webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not PT Serif.
same classification
A transitional text serif of similar weight and economy; less refined in its italic than Tiempos.
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