Epiceneis our new Baroque-inspired serif typeface. Building out from 18th century European typographic traditions, Epicene is a reconciliation of the work of rival typographers Jacques-François Rosart and Johann Michael Fleischmann. It's an expressive and functional type family featuring text and display variants with a generous range of weights.

Epicene Textis inspired by Fleischmann’s types. They're deliberate and focussed, but energised through cheekiness and a sly wink manifested in the small details.

Epicene Display, in the spirit of Rosart, is instead given license to perform with a smaller obligation to function.

While attentive to history, Epicene is not a revival typeface. It's an experiment in modernising Baroque letterforms without muzzling their ornamental idiosyncrasy nor falling into the trap of gender codifications.

Taking its name from Susan Sontag’s infamous essay, Notes On “Camp”, to be epicene means to lack gender distinction, to have aspects of both or neither. In applying this notion to a typographic context, Klim is calling out the tendency that codes modern, functional or ‘neutral’ visual forms as ‘masculine’, while equating anything ornate or decorative with ‘feminine’ traits.