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Font Pairing · Sans-serif

IBM Plex Sans

Designed in-house at IBM to replace Helvetica across the company's brand, Plex Sans has a distinctive technical-but-warm character rooted in slab-serif terminals borrowed from its sister families.

License: SIL Open Font License 1.1 View specimen & source →
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Live specimen

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The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
ABCDEFGHIJKLM NOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklm nopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 &@#%?!

Pairs well with

IBM Plex Sans as the headline, paired with a complementary body font.

IBM Plex Sans
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Similar fonts

Alternatives with a comparable feel to IBM Plex Sans.

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Use it in code

Click to copy. Served from a public CDN — nothing to download or self-host.