IBM Plex Mono

Monospace · by Mike Abbink, Bold Monday · 14 styles

Download

IBMPlexMono.zip · 1.9 MB · 15 files including OFL.txt

Typography profile

Weights
100–700 · 7 weights
Italics
Every weight
Scripts
Latin (incl. Extended), Cyrillic, Vietnamese
Best for
  • Code and snippets
  • Aligned tables and figures
Consider alternatives for
  • Long passages of prose
Characteristics
  • Monospaced
  • Grotesque
  • Alternate zero
  • Stylistic sets

Styles

32px

  1. IBM Plex Mono Thin 100 at 18px

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

  2. IBM Plex Mono Thin 100 at 32px

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

  3. IBM Plex Mono Thin Italic 100 at 18px

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

  4. IBM Plex Mono Thin Italic 100 at 32px

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

  5. IBM Plex Mono ExtraLight 200 at 18px

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

  6. IBM Plex Mono ExtraLight 200 at 32px

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

  7. IBM Plex Mono ExtraLight Italic 200 at 18px

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

  8. IBM Plex Mono ExtraLight Italic 200 at 32px

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

  9. IBM Plex Mono Light 300 at 18px

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

  10. IBM Plex Mono Light 300 at 32px

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

  11. IBM Plex Mono Light Italic 300 at 18px

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

  12. IBM Plex Mono Light Italic 300 at 32px

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

  13. IBM Plex Mono Regular 400 at 18px

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

  14. IBM Plex Mono Regular 400 at 32px

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

  15. IBM Plex Mono Italic 400 at 18px

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

  16. IBM Plex Mono Italic 400 at 32px

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

  17. IBM Plex Mono Medium 500 at 18px

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

  18. IBM Plex Mono Medium 500 at 32px

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

  19. IBM Plex Mono Medium Italic 500 at 18px

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

  20. IBM Plex Mono Medium Italic 500 at 32px

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

  21. IBM Plex Mono SemiBold 600 at 18px

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

  22. IBM Plex Mono SemiBold 600 at 32px

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

  23. IBM Plex Mono SemiBold Italic 600 at 18px

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

  24. IBM Plex Mono SemiBold Italic 600 at 32px

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

  25. IBM Plex Mono Bold 700 at 18px

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

  26. IBM Plex Mono Bold 700 at 32px

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

  27. IBM Plex Mono Bold Italic 700 at 18px

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

  28. IBM Plex Mono Bold Italic 700 at 32px

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

Pairs well with

  • Body

    IBM Plex Serif

    A sibling for the prose around the code. Built on shared Plex metrics, inline code sits in serif paragraphs without jumping in size, and the switch from serif to fixed width shows exactly where code starts.

  • UI

    IBM Plex Sans Condensed

    Narrow labels over wide data: column headers and filters in the condensed cut leave the horizontal space to the fixed-width values beneath them, without leaving the Plex family.

BPOZZ Design Note

IBM Plex was designed as coordinated siblings — Sans, Sans Condensed, Serif and Mono — and in the files here Plex Mono shares its x-height and cap height exactly with Plex Serif and Plex Sans Condensed. That is what lets code, labels and prose from the family sit on one line without looking mismatched.

BPOZZ editorial guidance for designers.

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About IBM Plex Mono

About
The monospaced member of IBM Plex, IBM's open-source corporate typeface. A neutral grotesque with engineered details, it comes in seven weights with italics and is intended for code snippets alongside Plex Sans and Serif.
Designer
Mike Abbink, Bold Monday
Version
2.3
Category
Monospace
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1

You may use, embed, modify and redistribute this font, including in commercial projects. The font files may not be sold on their own. Read the full license (OFL.txt).

This family declares a Reserved Font Name: if you modify the font, the modified version must use a different name.

Copyright © 2017 IBM Corp. with Reserved Font Name "Plex"

Source
Google Fonts

Download files taken unmodified from the google/fonts repository. Added to Google Fonts 12 Mar 2018.

Upstream project: github.com/googlefonts/plex.

Available styles
  • Thin 100
  • Thin Italic 100
  • ExtraLight 200
  • ExtraLight Italic 200
  • Light 300
  • Light Italic 300
  • Regular 400
  • Italic 400
  • Medium 500
  • Medium Italic 500
  • SemiBold 600
  • SemiBold Italic 600
  • Bold 700
  • Bold Italic 700
Available formats
  • TTF download and web preview
Character sets
Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Latin, Latin Extended, Vietnamese