The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Free font
IBM Plex Sans
A free alternative to Graphik.
About IBM Plex Sans
- Designer
- Mike Abbink
- Released
- 2017
- Available at
- Google Fonts →
- Featured on
- 4 paid font pages
IBM Plex Sans is also a free alternative to…
- Graphik → A corporate sans with neutral, flexible design for clarity in many contexts. Slightly more technical character than Graphik but fills the same role across editorial, brand, and interface.
- Neue Haas Grotesk → The same horizontal/vertical terminal philosophy as Neue Haas Grotesk, with a slightly more technical character. IBM's design system font; reliable across body, subhead, and display.
- Helvetica → Squared-off letterforms with the same strict horizontal/vertical terminal philosophy as Helvetica, but with a technical-modern character. IBM's own design system font, drawn to feel both engineered and human.
- Univers → Squared-off letterforms and the same horizontal/vertical terminal philosophy as Univers, with a slightly more technical character. IBM's house design system font; works at body, subhead, and display.
Display + body that work together
Letters that hold their nerve
The display sets the register; the body follows through. When both halves of a pair pull in the same direction, the design disappears and the words come forward.
Modern · Editorial IBM Plex Sans + EB Garamond
The shape of a working week
Crisp, even strokes give the display its punch. Quiet serifs underneath stay readable across thousands of words — used together by editors at the kind of paper that still prints corrections.
Editorial · Modern Bodoni Moda + IBM Plex Sans