IBM Plex Mono
Designed By
Mike Abbink, Bold Monday
14 Styles Monospace
Type Specimen / 01Il1 O0
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IBM Plex Mono · Regular
Compare letter widths, punctuation and figures in an aligned setting.
14 styles available. Compare the specimens below, or enter your own text.
Download IBM Plex Mono ↓TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1
Set Your Own Text
Change the style and size to compare the letterforms.
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Every Position Counts
IBM Plex Mono · Regular
Equal-width letters and figures.
Specimen.js
const family = "IBM Plex Mono";
function specimen(size) {
return { family, size };
}
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14 Styles,
One Family
Every available style is shown below in its own font file.
Thin100
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Thin Italic100
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Extra Light200
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Extra Light Italic200
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Light300
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Light Italic300
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Regular400
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Italic400
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Medium500
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Medium Italic500
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Semi Bold600
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Semi Bold Italic600
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Bold700
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Bold Italic700
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The italics are the surprise. They are livelier than you would expect from a corporate typeface, and IBM’s own description admits they are unexpectedly expressive. Set a comment in italic in your editor and you will see what they meant.
Plex is the company typeface for IBM worldwide, developed by the IBM Brand & Experience team with Mike Abbink, and drawn with Paul van der Laan and Pieter van Rosmalen at Bold Monday. The theme the designers worked from is the relationship between people and machines, long a principal subject for IBM, and the result is a grotesque meant to stay out of the way without going cold, with engineered details that are supposed to look like IBM and nobody else.
The family has 4 branches:
- Sans
- Sans Condensed
- Serif
- Mono, this one, for code snippets and anything that needs fixed widths
The Mono comes in 14 styles, Thin at 100 to Bold at 700, each with an italic, and covers Latin and Cyrillic, with Vietnamese included. There are 5 stylistic sets and a slashed zero.
We’d pair it with Plex Sans for the prose around the code.
Characters & Figures
930 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 400 recorded characters.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !
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The Font Files
Download
IBM Plex Mono
14 TTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 821 KB ↓- Version
- 2.3
- License
- SIL Open Font License 1.1
Install On Your Computer
Extract the ZIP first. On Windows, select the font files and choose Install from the context menu. On macOS, open the files in Font Book and choose Install.
Use On A Website
Keep the font files and the included stylesheet together. Update the stylesheet path to match your project.
<link rel="stylesheet"
href="/fonts/ibm-plex-mono-2/ibm-plex-mono-2.css">
body {
font-family: 'IBM Plex Mono', monospace;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
The family provides the heading; Inter carries the supporting text.
IBM Plex Mono Heading · Inter Body
Letters, Figures & Code
Names, values and punctuation share a fixed rhythm. Compare the zero with the capital O, and the number one with the lowercase l.