IBM Plex Sans by Mike Abbink

No. 44 · Sans

Programs must be written for people to read.

— Hal Abelson
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Name
IBM Plex Sans
Designer
Mike Abbink
Year
2017
Category
Sans
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Source
Google Fonts
Files
Provider package; formats vary
Source checked

Note

Mike Abbink drew IBM Plex to replace Helvetica Neue across IBM's identity. Engineering meets humanism: distinctive lowercase a, slab-influenced terminals, a real italic. The corporate sans that doesn't apologize.

Try it

Type directly, tune the specimen, then share this page—the workbench state lives in the URL.

Variable axes

Glyphs

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789
.,;:!?&@#$%*()[]{}"'/\

Weights and styles

100 Italic
Programs must be written for people to read.
100 Roman
Programs must be written for people to read.
200 Italic
Programs must be written for people to read.
200 Roman
Programs must be written for people to read.
300 Italic
Programs must be written for people to read.
300 Roman
Programs must be written for people to read.
400 Italic
Programs must be written for people to read.
400 Roman
Programs must be written for people to read.
500 Italic
Programs must be written for people to read.
500 Roman
Programs must be written for people to read.
600 Italic
Programs must be written for people to read.
600 Roman
Programs must be written for people to read.
700 Italic
Programs must be written for people to read.
700 Roman
Programs must be written for people to read.

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