IBM Plex Sans

IBM's corporate neo-grotesque balancing engineered precision with humanist warmth.

Font settings

Weight400

Width100

These settings in CSS

.ibm-plex-sans {
  font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", sans-serif;
}

Waterfall

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Character set

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

0123456789

!@#$%&*()[]{}<>,.;:'"?/—–-+=

Paragraph

Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form. It shapes how words are read, felt and remembered — from wayfinding on a station platform to the small print of a contract. Good type disappears into reading; great type gives a voice to the text.

Install

Google Fonts

Embed in the <head> of your HTML

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=IBM+Plex+Sans:wdth,wght@75..100,100..700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Use IBM Plex Sans in CSS

/* <weight>: use a value from 100 to 700 */

.ibm-plex-sans {
  font-family: "IBM Plex Sans", sans-serif;
  font-weight: <weight>;
}

Fontsource

Install from npm

npm install @fontsource-variable/ibm-plex-sans

Import once in your app entry

// Supports weights 100-700
import "@fontsource-variable/ibm-plex-sans";

Use in CSS

body {
  font-family: "IBM Plex Sans Variable", sans-serif;
}

Self-host

Google Fonts and Fontsource serve stripped builds — most OpenType features are removed. Self-hosting the original files is the only way to get the full feature set.

Download the font files from the website and serve them yourself:

Declare with @font-face

@font-face {
  font-family: "IBM Plex Sans";
  src: url("/fonts/ibm-plex-sans.woff2") format("woff2");
  font-display: swap;
}

Details

Designer: Mike Abbink
Foundry: Bold Monday (for IBM)
Licence: OFL
Format: Variable (wdth, wght)
Variable axes: wdth, wght