By Camille Circlude

How can typography move beyond the gender binary embedded in the French language? This publication examines the emergence of inclusive and non-binary writing systems, considering how experimental type design can challenge conventional linguistic structures and create new possibilities for representing gender.

Camille Circlude, a founding member of the Franco-Belgian collective Bye Bye Binary, explores the political dimensions of type design and its potential as a tool for emancipation and self-expression. Moving beyond conventional inclusive writing practices, including the use of the midpoint, the book considers how new typographic characters and hybrid letterforms can make space for queer, non-binary, genderfluid, and agender identities within written language.

Drawing on six years of typographic experimentation (2017–2023), the publication documents emerging approaches to post-binary typography and proposes a broader understanding of letterforms as sites of social and political transformation.

The book includes a visual appendix of approximately 100 experimental typographic characters, identifying fonts featuring post-binary ligatures.

Designed by deValence

Published by Éditions B42, 2023
Text in French

Softcover, 224 pages, black-and-white and color images, 5.43 × 8.66 inches

ISBN: 978-2-49-498302-1