Tiempos Text
Klim Type Foundry · Kris Sowersby · 2010
A workhorse text serif drawing on Plantin and Times, tuned for legible, economical body copy in editorial and news settings.
About
A pragmatic transitional serif by Kris Sowersby that updates the Plantin and Times News Roman lineage for contemporary, economical typesetting. The Tiempos system runs across three optical sizes (Text, Headline, Fine), so the same family carries you from body copy to mastheads without breaking voice. Reads quiet at small sizes and steady at large, which is why news, longform and editorial brands reach for it when the serif needs to stay out of the way.
Classification
Klim classifies it as Modern: Transitional/Realist; takes the functionality of Plantin and Times and updates it for contemporary, economical typesetting.