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

Tradition meets digital decay, by Lucas Descroix & Bonjour Monde

→ Discover Ferro

New publication

→ Plain Text 4

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

Natalie Seroussi gallery ⤤

Michaux

BET Awards ⤤

Grandmaster

Yves Tumor ⤤

Nostra

Götz Gramlich ⤤

Ready

Mitski ⤤

Ready

’Good Tape’ magazine ⤤

Paraiso


Michaux – 3 styles


Disc — on Future Fonts ⤤

Ready — 9 styles


Nostra — 2 styles

Paraiso — 7 styles


Petit Frère — 24 styles

Nostra — 2 styles


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


Michaux — 3 styles

Paraiso — 7 styles


Selected commissions

custom typeface (2 styles)

Flipper’s Roller Boogy Palace

custom typeface (30 styles)

SNOW

customized typeface (Nostra)

Calienna


Keyframe – 5 styles


Michaux — 3 styles

Ready — 9 styles


Paraiso — 7 styles

Grandmaster — 10 styles


Disc — on Future Fonts ⤤

Paraiso — 7 styles


Petit Frère — 28 styles


Publications & Merch

14€

Plain Text 2

35€

‘Immediate Surroundings’ t-shirt

Sold out

‘Scripted’ cap

14€

Plain Text 3

8€

Missing sign

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


Michaux — 3 styles

Ready — 9 styles


Keyframe — 5 styles