IBM Plex Mono - Google Fonts

About

IBM Plex® is the corporate typeface for IBM worldwide and an open-source project developed by the IBM Brand & Experience team (BX&D). Plex is an international typeface family designed to capture IBM’s brand spirit and history and to illustrate the unique relationship between mankind and machine—a principal theme for IBM since the turn of the century. The result is a neutral yet friendly Grotesque style typeface that balances design with the engineered details that make Plex distinctly IBM. The family includes a Sans, Sans Condensed, Mono, and Serif and has excellent legibility in print, web, and mobile interfaces.

Plex’s three designs work well independently and even better together. Use the Sans as a contemporary compadre, the Serif for editorial storytelling, or the Mono to show code snippets. The unexpectedly expressive nature of the italics gives you even more options for your designs. Currently, IBM Plex Sans supports Extended Latin, Arabic, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean and Thai.

Designers

Mike Abbink

Mike is the Executive Creative Director at IBM Brand Experience & Design—a team overseeing the expression and strategic evolution of every IBM brand and sub-brand worldwide. The group’s work crosses research and strategy, communications and content development, identity systems, digital and physical experiences, and tools and training. Mike has an extensive career as a type designer, creating successful typeface families, such as FF Kievit, FF Milo and Brando.

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Bold Monday

Bold Monday is an independent Dutch type foundry established in 2008 by Paul van der Laan and Pieter van Rosmalen. The Bold Monday library encompasses custom typeface design for high-profile, international clients, as well as state-of-the-art retail fonts for discerning designers.

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