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IBM Plex

IBM Plex is an open source typeface superfamily conceptually designed and developed by Mike Abbink at IBM in collaboration with Bold Monday to reflect the design principles of IBM and to be used for all brand material across the company internationally. Plex replaces Helvetica as the IBM corporate typeface after more than fifty years in 2017, freeing the…

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Category
Sans-serif
Classification
Grotesque
Designers
Mike Abbink Paul van der Laan Pieter van Rosmalen
Foundry
IBM Bold Monday
Latest release date
20 September 2023; 2 years ago (2023-09-20)
Latest release version
3.5

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IBM Plex

Nodes55
Edges54
Triples68
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.036364
Components1

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IBM Plex

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related to Unicode coverage · 30
IBM Plex → Added, Adding, April, Arabic, As, Cyrillic, December, Devanagari, For, Greek, Hangul, Hebrew, IBM Plex Sans, IBM Plex Sans Arabic, IBM Plex Sans Condensed, IBM Plex Sans Devanagari, IBM Plex Sans Hebrew, IBM Plex Sans Japanese, IBM Plex Sans Korean, IBM Plex Sans Thai
see also · 11
IBM Plex → AndroidNational Fonts, AndroidNoto, AndroidOpen Sans, Carbon Design System, Droid SansRoboto, Fonts, GNOMEDroid, IBM, RussiaSTIX Fonts, Thai, Unicode
related to External links · 7
IBM Plex → Condensed, GitHub, Google Fonts, Google FontsIBM Plex Mono, Google FontsIBM Plex Sans, Google FontsIBM Plex Serif, Plex Sans
Category · 1
IBM Plex → Sans-serif
Classification · 1
IBM Plex → Grotesque
Designers · 1
IBM Plex → Mike Abbink Paul van der Laan Pieter van Rosmalen
Foundry · 1
IBM Plex → IBM Bold Monday
Latest release date · 1
IBM Plex → 20 September 2023; 2 years ago (2023-09-20)
Latest release version · 1
IBM Plex → 3.5
License · 1
IBM Plex → SIL OFL

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ibm plex sans typeface support design used serif license bold released also version sans-serif fonts inspired mike abbink monday condensed

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IBM PlexCategorySans-serif1.00infobox
IBM PlexClassificationGrotesque1.00infobox
IBM PlexDesignersMike Abbink Paul van der Laan Pieter van Rosmalen1.00infobox
IBM PlexFoundryIBM Bold Monday1.00infobox
IBM PlexLatest release date20 September 2023; 2 years ago (2023-09-20)1.00infobox
IBM PlexLatest release version3.51.00infobox
IBM PlexLicenseSIL OFL1.00infobox
IBM Plexis aopen source typeface superfamily conceptually designed and developed by Mike Abbink at IBM in collaboration with Bold Monday to reflect the design principles of IBM and to be us…0.90text
the angled terminalsinstance ofSome of Franklin Gothic's features0.80text
a double-storey ginstance ofSome of Franklin Gothic's features0.80text
a horizontal line at the baseline of the 1 are used in IBM Plex Sansinstance ofSome of Franklin Gothic's features0.80text
ball terminalsinstance ofSome of Bodoni's features0.80text

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