Plain Text 3

Plain Text is a semi-annual publication for exploratory type design, edited and designed by Lucas Descroix and Benjamin Dumond under their type foundry Plain Form. From its very first issue, Plain Text carved out a space where letters roam free from certain expectations. A place to share trials, doubts, successes and failures, and build a theory of type design that is poetic, eclectic and federated. Its first issue, now out of stock, can be read freely online.

Plain Text 3, released in March 2026, continues to widen the territory. Benjamin Dumond reflects on typography as a multiple practice, Eugénie Bidaut probes legibility through odd contrast methods, Thomas Huot-Marchand revisits Émile Javal's work on eyes and letters, and Johanna Drucker speaks about the life and magic of alphabets. Elsewhere, Gabriele Čepulytė explores asemic writing, Ariel Martín Pérez reflects on absent letters in the Canary Islands, and Mankun Guo's type stirs, shifts, and takes shape.

Letters, when left to their own devices, have always had stranger things in mind than mere communication.

Plain Text 3

Publisher: Plain Form
Editors: Lucas Descroix, Benjamin Dumond
Design: Lucas Descroix, Benjamin Dumond
Release: March 2026
Format: 21 × 29,7 cm (210 × 297 mm)
Volume: 80 pages
Language: English / French
Printing: offset print on Munken Print White
ISBN: 978-2-9597254-3-2
Price: €14.– (DE)

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