Commercial · Serif · Klim Type Foundry
Epicene Text
Epicene 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. Epicene 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
- 2021
- Styles
- 10
- 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 Baroque serif inspired by the 18th-century work of J-F. Rosart and J.M. Fleischmann, with exaggerated details meant to add rigour at text sizes. Epicene Display is the companion. 10 styles.
Free alternatives to Epicene Text
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Epicene 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 Libre Caslon Text webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Libre Caslon Text.
same classification
A Baroque-era text serif of similar sturdiness; Caslon's details are calmer than Epicene's Rosart/Fleischmann exaggerations.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The EB Garamond webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not EB Garamond.
same classification
An old-style text serif with a similar range; earlier and softer in its models than Epicene.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Cormorant webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Cormorant.
same classification
A display-leaning old-style serif with pointed details; much lighter in colour than Epicene Text.
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