IBM Plex Sans Condensed
Designed By
Mike Abbink, Bold Monday
14 Styles Sans Serif
Letters for
every day.
IBM Plex Sans Condensed · Regular
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14 styles available. Compare the specimens below, or enter your own text.
Download IBM Plex Sans Condensed ↓TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1
Set Your Own Text
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IBM Plex Sans Condensed · Regular
Headings, labels and running text.
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The morning service leaves at nine. Tickets are available at the station, and the platform is listed on the departure board. Keep your ticket until the end of the journey.
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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Dashboards are where this one earns a place. A table with 9 columns of figures and labels that will not fit in normal Plex Sans gets its room back in the Condensed, and nothing about the letters changes character on the way, so a report can switch between the 2 widths mid-page without anyone feeling a seam.
Plex is IBM’s own corporate typeface, developed by the company’s Brand & Experience team with Mike Abbink and the foundry Bold Monday credited, Paul van der Laan and Pieter van Rosmalen among them. IBM wanted the family to carry its history and the long-running theme of people and machines working together, and the grotesque shapes have a few engineered details for that reason. The whole set is Sans, Sans Condensed, Mono and Serif, made to be mixed.
- 14 styles here, Thin at 100 to Bold at 700, each with an italic.
The italics are livelier than you’d guess from a corporate face, and in the Condensed they keep almost exactly the width of the upright, so you can italicize a column entry without it spilling over. There are 5 stylistic sets and a slashed zero, which helps when an ID or a serial number has both O and 0 in it. Vietnamese is covered. Below Light, I’d keep it to big sizes; Thin in a condensed width goes brittle fast at 12 px.
Characters & Figures
604 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 Sans Condensed
14 TTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 719 KB ↓- Version
- 1.3
- 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-sans-condensed-2/ibm-plex-sans-condensed-2.css">
body {
font-family: 'IBM Plex Sans Condensed', sans-serif;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
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IBM Plex Sans Condensed Heading · IBM Plex Sans Condensed Body
Before You Travel
The morning service leaves at nine. Tickets are available at the station, and the platform is listed on the departure board. Keep your ticket until the end of the journey.