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.

The first issue of Plain Text features voices from various backgrounds and generations, many offering a personal, even intimate or spiritual, approach to letters.

Topics in this issue include touch on understanding type families through parables, printing woes ("is the devil in the details?"), experimental type, the border between text and image, letters as carriers of ancient magic, asemic (non-)sense, and much more!

Includes contributions from Anne-Dauphine Borione, Lucas Descroix, Benjamin Dumond, Kirsten D. Dzwiza, Stefan Ellmer, Ayasha Khan, Zuzana Licko, Arman Mohtadji, William Skeen, Verso Wurm and Eager Zhang.

Published by Plain Form, 2025

Softcover, 96 pages, b&w, 8.3 × 11.6 inches

ISBN: 978-2-95-972540-1