IBM Plex Sans
Google Fonts · Mike Abbink · 2017
IBM's flagship sans-serif balances corporate authority with humanist warmth across a broad weight range.
About
IBM Plex Sans is the centrepiece of IBM's open-source type system, designed to embody the company's rational, engineering-led identity without sacrificing legibility or personality. Its full weight range makes it suitable for everything from body copy and UI labels to bold headline statements. Greek, Cyrillic, and extended Latin support ensures broad multilingual deployment.
Classification
IBM Plex Sans blends neo-grotesque structure with humanist details, reflecting IBM's engineering heritage while maintaining readability at small sizes. Subtle quirks in letterforms — such as the double-storey 'a' — distinguish it from purely neutral grotesques.