Financier Text
Klim Type Foundry · Kris Sowersby · 2016
A transitional text serif with slab leanings, drawn from Gill's Solus and Joanna for the 2014 Financial Times redesign.
About
A transitional text serif by Kris Sowersby, the body-copy companion to Financier Display drawn for the 2014 Financial Times redesign. Pragmatic detailing comes from Eric Gill's Solus and Joanna, giving it a slab leaning that holds shape on broadsheets and on narrow mobile screens. Four weights from Regular to Black across eight styles plus variable roman and italic axes carry features, news and longform across the FT's wider editorial system.
Classification
Klim classifies it as Modern: Transitional/Slab Serif; the text counterpart drawn for the 2014 Financial Times redesign, with pragmatic detailing taken from Solus and Joanna in the Gill lineage.