Ready is a typeface designed by Lucas Descroix and Benjamin Dumond, released by Plain Form in 2022. This collection of display styles explores an asphyxiation of sense under an exuberance of the sign.
Marrying historical letterforms with the organic unpredictability of “reaction-diffusion” algorithms, Ready does more than flirting with abstraction: it tips over into becoming pure shapes, only sprinkled with a few hints of our long-established and codified writing system.×
READY
Ready is
a beautiful
group
of letters.
Ready is a beautiful
group of letters.
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Ready is
a lovely
collection
of signs.
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Ready is a lovely
collection of signs.
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Ready is
an exquisite
conglomerate
of graphic notes.
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Ready is an exquisite
conglomerate of graphic notes.
B
Ready is
an empiric
exploration
in legibility.
Ready is an empiric exploration
in legibility.
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Ready is
a pragmatic
expedition
in perceptibility.
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Ready is a pragmatic expedition
in perceptibility.
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Ready is
an observational peregrination
in decipherability.
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Ready is an observational peregrination
in decipherability.
O
Ready is
loosely based
on historical
sources.
Ready is loosely based
on historical sources.
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Ready is
roughly rooted
in archival
antecedents.
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Ready is roughly rooted
in archival antecedents.
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Ready is
a bit contingent
on chronicled
points of supply.
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Ready is a bit contingent on chronicled points of supply.
R
Ready is
a conversation
between hand
and machine.
Ready is a conversation between
hand and machine.
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Ready is
a debate
separating palm
and instrument.
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Ready is a debate separating
palm and instrument.
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Ready is
a colloquy
amid metacarpus
and apparatus.
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Ready is a colloquy amid
metacarpus and apparatus.
N
Ready is
embracing the
pleasure of
pure shape.
Ready is embracing the pleasure
of pure shape.
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Ready is
endorsing the
felicity of
authentic figure.
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Ready is endorsing the felicity
of authentic figure.
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Ready is
spooning the
titillation of
lucid embodiment.
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Ready is spooning the titillation
of lucid embodiment.
R
Ready is
an ode to a
writing system’s
flexibility.
Ready is an ode to a
writing system’s flexibility.
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Ready is
a sonnet to a
script structure’s
docility.
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Ready is a sonnet to a
script structure’s docility.
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Ready is
an epode to a
lexemic setup’s
tensility.
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Ready is an epode to a
lexemic setup’s tensility.
E
Ready is
welcoming
a loss of
control.
Ready is welcoming
a loss of control.
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Ready is
saluting
a deficit of
management.
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Ready is saluting
a deficit of management.
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Ready is
hugging
a shrinkage of
supremacy.
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Ready is hugging
a shrinkage of supremacy.
A
Ready is
mixing
abstraction
and semantics.
Ready is mixing
abstraction and semantics.
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Ready is
weaving
nonconcrete
and linguistics.
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Ready is weaving
nonconcrete and linguistics.
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Ready is
amalgamating
transcendental
and glossology.
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Ready is amalgamating
transcendental and glossology.
D
Ready is
maybe what we’ll
read best in
200 years.
Ready is maybe what we’ll
read best in 200 years.
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Ready is
perhaps what we’ll
perceive wholly
in 2 centuries.
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Ready is perhaps what we’ll
perceive wholly in 2 centuries.
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Ready is
feasibly what we’ll
dip into greatly
in 20 decades.
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Ready is feasibly what we’ll
dip into greatly in 20 decades.