IBM Plex Serif
Designed By
Mike Abbink, Bold Monday
14 Styles Serif
The pleasure
of a well-set
page.
IBM Plex Serif · Regular
Compare this serif family in headings and a continuous reading sample.
14 styles available. Compare the specimens below, or enter your own text.
Download IBM Plex Serif ↓TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1
Set Your Own Text
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Annual findings, prepared for the board
A Page In IBM Plex Serif
IBM Plex Serif · Regular
Headings, labels and running text.
Notes From The Reading Room
The reading room opens onto a quiet courtyard. Along the shelves, small handwritten labels mark the collections. A visitor leaves a book open beside the window, keeping a place for the next reader.
A heading marks the next chapter. The margins leave room for a note while the text continues across the page.
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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Plex began as IBM’s house type, developed by its Brand and Experience team around a theme the company has come back to since the turn of the century, people and machines. Mike Abbink led the design with Paul van der Laan and Pieter van Rosmalen of the studio Bold Monday. The family grew to a Sans, a Sans Condensed, a Mono and this Serif.
The Serif is the one IBM points at storytelling and editorial work. It keeps some of the engineered feel of the Sans, so the 2 sit together on a page without much effort, and a report could run Plex Sans for the headings and charts and Plex Serif for the paragraphs.
The italics deserve their own paragraph. They are expressive for a corporate family, and much narrower than the roman, close to 11% across a line, which makes them good for setting off a phrase in running text.
14 styles in all, Thin through Bold, each with its italic, and Cyrillic and Vietnamese alongside Latin. A slashed zero and 5 stylistic sets sit in the features.
Thin is an odd weight for a serif in a long document. Keep it for big type.
Characters & Figures
754 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 Serif
14 TTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 1012 KB ↓- Version
- 2.6
- 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-serif-2/ibm-plex-serif-2.css">
body {
font-family: 'IBM Plex Serif', sans-serif;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
The family provides the heading; Inter carries the supporting text.
IBM Plex Serif Heading · Inter Body
Notes From The Reading Room
The reading room opens onto a quiet courtyard. Along the shelves, small handwritten labels mark the collections. A visitor leaves a book open beside the window, keeping a place for the next reader.