Brainchild of Strike Design Studio, Rich Text maps a lineage from printing presses and the typographers’ unions that fought automation to today’s slick WYSIWYG software and AI‑generated prose.

Rich Text traces how formatting tools, hypertext, desktop publishing, and interface design have both liberated and constrained expression, and reveals rich text formatting as a site of resistance where users wield boldface, italics, links, and raw code to reclaim autonomy. By sliding between the gaps in code, it questions whether software that promises ease and access actually narrows our imaginative and political possibility.

Contributors: Cody Caetano, Elida Silvey, Elizabeth Benke, Francis Whorrall-Campbell, Fiona Glen, Lucy Petersen, Mac Andre Arboleda, Olu Niyi-Awosusi, Willem Deisinger, Zakiyyah Deen & Emil Woudenberg