Episcopiei Font

Episcopiei is a custom all-caps display font I designed for a brochure promoting the renovation of a historic building. Inspired by the elegant marble engraving on its façade, I turned forgotten stone glyphs into digital letters. A personal passion project disguised as client work.

Year: 2019
Client: Skin Media
Industry: Commerce
Duration: 2 weeks

The word EPISCOPIEI carved in relief into pale stone

The problem

The job? A simple brochure for a beautifully aging building under renovation. But once I saw that marble inscription at the entrance—with its elegant, forgotten type—I knew the brochure deserved more than just any font. It needed that font.

The weathered marble inscription reading C. DONCAUD, ARHITECT, on the building façade

The finished brochure lying open on a table

The solution

I recreated the engraved lettering from the marble slab into a custom font: Episcopiei. Just an all-caps set with numbers and punctuation—enough for titles, subtitles, and page numbers. It brought the entire brochure to life and gave the project a unique, authentic voice.

The same inscription redrawn as a digital typeface and set on marble

The challenge

Making the font was the fun part. Convincing the client that “hey, I made a custom typeface just for this” wasn’t a detour—it was a feature—that was the tricky bit. Luckily, once they saw it in layout, they got it.

The full Episcopiei character set — capitals, numerals and punctuation — set on marble

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