Plain Form is an independent foundry and publisher. Through letterforms and printed matter, we build a space for critical and expressive approaches to typography.

New release

→ Ferro

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Tradition meets digital decay, by Lucas Descroix & Bonjour Monde

→ Discover Ferro

New publication

→ Plain Text 4

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Printed periodical for exploratory type design: essays, interviews, fiction

→ Discover Plain Text 4


Typefaces

Ready

9 styles

Ferro

24 styles

Michaux

5 styles

Paraiso

7 styles


Fonts in use

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Natalie Seroussi gallery ⤤

Michaux

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BET Awards ⤤

Grandmaster

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Yves Tumor ⤤

Nostra

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Götz Gramlich ⤤

Ready

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Mitski ⤤

Ready

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’Good Tape’ magazine ⤤

Paraiso


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Michaux – 3 styles


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Disc — on Future Fonts ⤤

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Ready — 9 styles


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Nostra — 2 styles

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Paraiso — 7 styles


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Petit Frère — 24 styles

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Nostra — 2 styles


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Grandmaster — 10 styles


Latest article

“Expired by”
Notes on the design of Ferro

This text explores the genesis and ideas behind Ferro, a type family shaped by obsolescence and information loss. Drawing from Renaissance typography and early digital media, the project treats type revival as a process of reinterpretation rather than faithful reconstruction. Through successive stages of digital decay, Ferro explores the unstable boundary between preservation and collapse, readability and abstraction.

→ Read more


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Michaux — 3 styles

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Paraiso — 7 styles


Selected commissions

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custom typeface (2 styles)

Flipper’s Roller Boogy Palace

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custom typeface (30 styles)

SNOW

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customized typeface (Nostra)

Calienna


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Keyframe – 5 styles


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Michaux — 3 styles

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Ready — 9 styles


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Paraiso — 7 styles

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Grandmaster — 10 styles


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Disc — on Future Fonts ⤤

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Paraiso — 7 styles


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Petit Frère — 28 styles


Publications & Merch

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14€

Plain Text 2

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35€

‘Immediate Surroundings’ t-shirt

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Sold out

‘Scripted’ cap

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14€

Plain Text 3

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8€

Missing sign

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35€

‘Sponsors’ t-shirt


Typefaces

Ferro

24 styles

Paraiso

7 styles

Nostra

2 styles


Newsletter

Things we do and things we like, delivered to your mailbox every two months.

The Plain Form newsletter is a quiet dispatch of fonts, thoughts, and sounds. Every few moons, we share updates on type releases and publishing projects, highlight fonts in use or custom cases, and offer glimpses into doubts, inspirations and works in progress. It’s written slowly, with care—our way of staying in touch beyond the scroll, with news from us and our friends, a growing music playlist, and other fragments that shape what we do. Join more than two thousand designers and never miss a thing!

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Grandmaster — 10 styles


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Michaux — 3 styles

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Ready — 9 styles


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Keyframe — 5 styles