Typophile

Typefaces used in Climb On! catalogue

Seadreams

Hi, does anyone know the typefaces (2x) in this cluster of type?
I have to do a re-interpretation of a flyer using the same type as their catalogue.
Thanks in advance.

Got one of them (top left) is ICG Improv, can anyone tell me if this is a free typeface or alternatively a typeface that is very similar for free? Thanks.

you poor bugger, those are some shiitty fonts!

Muzz

Haha! Yep, it’s going to be pretty painful working with these beauties!

The other is Flowerchild.

Thanks Mike F.

Improv is not free font and, since Agfa/MT took the ICG fonts over, they’ve been rather pricy.

I can’t think of anything free like Improv. You can do a search by Theme (style, really) on Dafont from the link to Flowerchild above to see if something free there is acceptably close.

I’d suggest Postino (actually a backslanted Postino Italic would be even closer) as a cheaper commercial alternative.

You can always rely on Muzzer to tell it like it is :^)

Nick Cooke

You could also look at some of Nick Curtis’s old freebies for a possible Improv alternative. It has the kind of ’retro’ vibe that many of his fonts also have.

- Mike Yanega

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