[ Plain Text ] (English + French)
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a semi-annual publication for exploratory type design
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(by Plain Form)
From fiction to theory, from mystical analyses to visual works, Plain Text aims at exploring typographic imaginaries, moving beyond a strictly historical and technical framework, with a taste for the unknown and the dormant potential of writing.
(Jan 2025)———(14€)
[210 × 295mm]
[ISBN 978-2-9597254-0-1]
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Family Business
Lucas Descroix views type families through parables.
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Trust the Process
A dive into Anne-Dauphine Borione’s energetic letters.
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Legend of the Printer’s Devil
Printing might be pure evil, according to William Skeen.
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Shape of a Thousand Universes
Eager Zhang’s poetic outlook on type and languages.
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Asemic What?
A conversation with Stefan Ellmer about (non-)sense.
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Emomania
Ayasha Khan explores the border between text and images.
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Type as a Labyrinth
What Benjamin Dumond means when he says “experimental”.
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Atlas
Non-verbal links in a well-arranged array of images.
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Weavings
Zuzana Licko brings type design mechanisms into other fields.
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One Last Request
Fonts destroy the world, by Verso Wurm, illustrated by Arman Mohtadji.
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Ancient Mysteries of Writing
Archeologist Kirsten D. Dzwiza on letters and ancient magic.
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Express Exegesis
Reading intentions and building bridges between typefaces.
Support
Plain Form is an association whose aim is to spread conceptual and visual research in the fields of typography, writing forms and graphic design, to bring historical knowledge to the public's attention, and to highlight and encourage contemporary production. If you would like to help us, please donate.
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