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IBM Plex
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IBM Plex
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IBM Plex
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Hybrid Cloud
Hybrid Cloud
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Δεδομένα
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Eliot Noyes: The programme as a whole is, I think, set up for two main reasons. One, is to give personality — to state the attitude that represents IBM; second, is the assurance of recognition of this personality in its statements, to give a clear identity to IBM in every case that we can.
Eliot Noyes: The programme as a whole is, I think, set up for two main reasons. One, is to give personality — to state the attitude that represents IBM; second, is the assurance of recognition of this personality in its statements, to give a clear identity to IBM in every case that we can.
Eliot Noyes: The programme as a whole is, I think, set up for two main reasons. One, is to give personality — to state the attitude that represents IBM; second, is the assurance of recognition of this personality in its statements, to give a clear identity to IBM in every case that we can.
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As you look... toward the 705 room, the bright colour on the wall behind is of course because the machines themselves have grey covers and they have only detailed interest externally. The effect of unifying all these separate pieces, is pretty well accomplished by this big red wall, which just goes screaming along the back and has some signs on it... we have the white floor, the red wall and the main frame of the 705 and this also shows that when you start looking hard at the machines themselves you find that you have some really wonderful things to look at. Here is the heart of the machine.
As you look... toward the 705 room, the bright colour on the wall behind is of course because the machines themselves have grey covers and they have only detailed interest externally. The effect of unifying all these separate pieces, is pretty well accomplished by this big red wall, which just goes screaming along the back and has some signs on it... we have the white floor, the red wall and the main frame of the 705 and this also shows that when you start looking hard at the machines themselves you find that you have some really wonderful things to look at. Here is the heart of the machine.
As you look... toward the 705 room, the bright colour on the wall behind is of course because the machines themselves have grey covers and they have only detailed interest externally. The effect of unifying all these separate pieces, is pretty well accomplished by this big red wall, which just goes screaming along the back and has some signs on it... we have the white floor, the red wall and the main frame of the 705 and this also shows that when you start looking hard at the machines themselves you find that you have some really wonderful things to look at. Here is the heart of the machine.
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Over the years in two houses we have acquired bits and pieces of art. The collecting of these bits has been a small, intermittent, economical operation but done with tremendous excitement by the whole family. A new small Lipchitz sculpture becomes the focal point of the living room for weeks. Three rugs (Picasso, Miro, Matisse) hung on the walls become huge paintings for us, brilliant in color, and bright backgrounds for our family life. We all walk right through one low-hanging Calder mobile, making it swing, and we bat or blow at one another as we pass by.
The lab looked like a lab... We decided that it was a school. It was like a college. You needed places to sit and feel a little bit enclosed. You might think of campuses, or quadrangles, or quirts, and so we made a court… You can look straight through the lobby — which will have exhibits in it — into the court, which will have sun, water, trees, grass, stone walls, and on the exterior face of the building, it will be balconies... so that people can come to smoke, look at the scenery.
As you look... toward the 705 room, the bright colour on the wall behind is of course because the machines themselves have grey covers and they have only detailed interest externally. The effect of unifying all these separate pieces, is pretty well accomplished by this big red wall, which just goes screaming along the back and has some signs on it… we have the white floor, the red wall and the main frame of the 705 and this also shows that when you start looking hard at the machines themselves you find that you have some really wonderful things to look at.
Over the years in two houses we have acquired bits and pieces of art. The collecting of these bits has been a small, intermittent, economical operation but done with tremendous excitement by the whole family. A new small Lipchitz sculpture becomes the focal point of the living room for weeks. Three rugs (Picasso, Miro, Matisse) hung on the walls become huge paintings for us, brilliant in color, and bright backgrounds for our family life. We all walk right through one low-hanging Calder mobile, making it swing, and we bat or blow at one another as we pass by.
The lab looked like a lab... We decided that it was a school. It was like a college. You needed places to sit and feel a little bit enclosed. You might think of campuses, or quadrangles, or quirts, and so we made a court… You can look straight through the lobby — which will have exhibits in it — into the court, which will have sun, water, trees, grass, stone walls, and on the exterior face of the building, it will be balconies... so that people can come to smoke, look at the scenery.
As you look... toward the 705 room, the bright colour on the wall behind is of course because the machines themselves have grey covers and they have only detailed interest externally. The effect of unifying all these separate pieces, is pretty well accomplished by this big red wall, which just goes screaming along the back and has some signs on it… we have the white floor, the red wall and the main frame of the 705 and this also shows that when you start looking hard at the machines themselves you find that you have some really wonderful things to look at.
Over the years in two houses we have acquired bits and pieces of art. The collecting of these bits has been a small, intermittent, economical operation but done with tremendous excitement by the whole family. A new small Lipchitz sculpture becomes the focal point of the living room for weeks. Three rugs (Picasso, Miro, Matisse) hung on the walls become huge paintings for us, brilliant in color, and bright backgrounds for our family life. We all walk right through one low-hanging Calder mobile, making it swing, and we bat or blow at one another as we pass by.
The lab looked like a lab... We decided that it was a school. It was like a college. You needed places to sit and feel a little bit enclosed. You might think of campuses, or quadrangles, or quirts, and so we made a court… You can look straight through the lobby — which will have exhibits in it — into the court, which will have sun, water, trees, grass, stone walls, and on the exterior face of the building, it will be balconies... so that people can come to smoke, look at the scenery.
As you look... toward the 705 room, the bright colour on the wall behind is of course because the machines themselves have grey covers and they have only detailed interest externally. The effect of unifying all these separate pieces, is pretty well accomplished by this big red wall, which just goes screaming along the back and has some signs on it… we have the white floor, the red wall and the main frame of the 705 and this also shows that when you start looking hard at the machines themselves you find that you have some really wonderful things to look at.
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As you look... toward the 705 room, the bright colour on the wall behind is of course because the machines themselves have grey covers and they have only detailed interest externally. The effect of unifying all these separate pieces, is pretty well accomplished by this big red wall, which just goes screaming along the back and has some signs on it... we have the white floor, the red wall and the main frame of the 705 and this also shows that when you start looking hard at the machines themselves you find that you have some really wonderful things to look at.
The lab looked like a lab... We decided that it was a school. It was like a college. You needed places to sit and feel a little bit enclosed. You might think of campuses, or quadrangles, or quirts, and so we made a court... You can look straight through the lobby — which will have exhibits in it — into the court, which will have sun, water, trees, grass, stone walls, and on the exterior face of the building, it will be balconies... so that people can come to smoke, look at the scenery.
Over the years in two houses we have acquired bits and pieces of art. The collecting of these bits has been a small, intermittent, economical operation but done with tremendous excitement by the whole family. A new small Lipchitz sculpture becomes the focal point of the living room for weeks. Three rugs (Picasso, Miro, Matisse) hung on the walls become huge paintings for us, brilliant in color, and bright backgrounds for our family life. We all walk right through one low-hanging Calder mobile, making it swing, and we bat or blow at one another as we pass by.
As you look... toward the 705 room, the bright colour on the wall behind is of course because the machines themselves have grey covers and they have only detailed interest externally. The effect of unifying all these separate pieces, is pretty well accomplished by this big red wall, which just goes screaming along the back and has some signs on it... we have the white floor, the red wall and the main frame of the 705 and this also shows that when you start looking hard at the machines themselves you find that you have some really wonderful things to look at.
The lab looked like a lab... We decided that it was a school. It was like a college. You needed places to sit and feel a little bit enclosed. You might think of campuses, or quadrangles, or quirts, and so we made a court... You can look straight through the lobby — which will have exhibits in it — into the court, which will have sun, water, trees, grass, stone walls, and on the exterior face of the building, it will be balconies... so that people can come to smoke, look at the scenery.
Over the years in two houses we have acquired bits and pieces of art. The collecting of these bits has been a small, intermittent, economical operation but done with tremendous excitement by the whole family. A new small Lipchitz sculpture becomes the focal point of the living room for weeks. Three rugs (Picasso, Miro, Matisse) hung on the walls become huge paintings for us, brilliant in color, and bright backgrounds for our family life. We all walk right through one low-hanging Calder mobile, making it swing, and we bat or blow at one another as we pass by.
As you look... toward the 705 room, the bright colour on the wall behind is of course because the machines themselves have grey covers and they have only detailed interest externally. The effect of unifying all these separate pieces, is pretty well accomplished by this big red wall, which just goes screaming along the back and has some signs on it... we have the white floor, the red wall and the main frame of the 705 and this also shows that when you start looking hard at the machines themselves you find that you have some really wonderful things to look at.
The lab looked like a lab... We decided that it was a school. It was like a college. You needed places to sit and feel a little bit enclosed. You might think of campuses, or quadrangles, or quirts, and so we made a court... You can look straight through the lobby — which will have exhibits in it — into the court, which will have sun, water, trees, grass, stone walls, and on the exterior face of the building, it will be balconies... so that people can come to smoke, look at the scenery.
Over the years in two houses we have acquired bits and pieces of art. The collecting of these bits has been a small, intermittent, economical operation but done with tremendous excitement by the whole family. A new small Lipchitz sculpture becomes the focal point of the living room for weeks. Three rugs (Picasso, Miro, Matisse) hung on the walls become huge paintings for us, brilliant in color, and bright backgrounds for our family life. We all walk right through one low-hanging Calder mobile, making it swing, and we bat or blow at one another as we pass by.
IBM Plex® Sans styles
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Extra Light
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Extra Light Italic
Light Italic
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Text Italic
Medium Italic
Semi Bold Italic
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Summary
In March of 2024, the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, acquired IBM Plex® Sans and Mono into their permanent collection.
IBM Plex® is the new open-source corporate typeface for IBM. Designed in collaboration with Bold Monday, it is carefully tuned to meet the requirements of one of the largest technology companies in the world and to reflect IBM’s brand spirit, beliefs, and design principles. The new design of the typeface is rooted in the idea of man and machine. It borrows influences from the IBM logotype and historical typewriter typefaces. The balance between engineered and natural lettering techniques set the principles from which this design was born.
The IBM Plex family comprises sans-serif, serif, condensed, and monospace styles to serve various needs across communications and digital experiences. The sans and serif are the workhorse families, while the monospaced is excellent for coding by developers. Each style of the IBM Plex family comes in eight weights with italics and currently supports Arabic, Devanagari, Chinese, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Thai, and most recently Math.
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Various selections using IBM Plex, ranging from the IBM Plex video created with our good friends at Buck, the IBM Research brand identity and IBM infographics.
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Design by atelier TypoMorpho, Bordeaux, France. Identity, wayfinding, book design, exhibition design for Euskadiko Arkitektura Institutua / Instituto de Arquitectura de Euskadi (EAI/IAE) architecture center (www.eai.eus), Basque Country, Spain, 2018–2021.
Credit & details
Creative direction
Mike Abbink
Naming
Mike Abbink
Design
Mike Abbink, Paul van der Laan, Pieter van Rosmalen
Design: Arabic
Khajag Apelian, Wael Morcos
Design: Cyrillic
Aleksandra Samuļenkova
Design: Devanagari
Erin McLaughlin
Design: Greek
Aleksandra Samuļenkova
Design: Hebrew
Yanek Iontef
Design: Japanese
Jinhee Kim, Wujin Sim
Design: Korean
Chorong Kim, Wujin Sim
Design: Thai
Mark Frömberg, Ben Mitchell
Engineering
Bold Monday
Engineering: CJK
Sandoll
Awards
TDC 64 2018 Judges choice, D&AD Award 2020 Wood Pencil
Video
Buck
Website
IBM Plex microsite
Download
Github
Language support
Afrikaans
Albanian
Arabic
Arabic Afrikaans
Arwi (Arabic Tamil)
Asu
Äynu
Azerbaijani
Bakhtiari
Balti
Balochi/Baluchi
Basque
Beja
Belarusian
Bemba
Bena
Bokmål
Bosnian
Brahui
Breton
Bru
Bulgarian
Catalan Central
Chagatai
Chiga
Chong
Comorian
Coptic
Cornish
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dari
Deccani
Devanagari
Dogri
Domari
Dutch
Eastern Cham
Embu
English
Esperanto
Estonian
Faroese
Farsi
Filipino
Finnish
French
Galician
Ganda
German
Gilaki
Greek
Gujari
Gusii
Hausa
Hawaiian
Hazaragi
Hebrew
Hindko
Hungarian
Icelandic
Indonesian
Indus
Ingush
Irish
Italian
Japanese
Jola-Fonyi
Kabuverdianu
Kachi Koli
Kalaallisut
Kalenjin
Kamba
Kanuri
Karakalpak
Kashmiri/
Kazakh
Khowar
Kikuyu
Kinyarwanda
Kohistani
Korean
Kurdish
Kuy
Kyrgyz
Lahnda
Laki
Latvian
Lithuanian
Luhya
Lwalu
Macedonian
Machame
Makhuwa-Meetto
Makonde
Malagasy
Malay
Maltese
Manx
Mazanderani
Meru
Mongolian
Morisien
Moroccan Arabic
Muslim Tat
Northern Hindko
Northern Khmer
Northern Luri
Ndebele
Norwegian
Nyah Kur
Nyankole
Nynorsk
Oromo
Ottoman Turkish
Pali
Parkari Koli
Parsi-Dari
Pashto
Patani Malay
Polish
Portuguese
Punjabi
Qashqai
Romanian
Romansh
Rombo
Rundi
Russian
Rwa
Samburu
Sango
Sangu
Sanskrit
Sena
Serbian
Seraiki
Serer
Shambala
Shona
Sindhi
Slovak
Slovenian
So
Soga
Somali
South Azerbaijani
Southern Hindko
Southern Kurdish
Southern Luri
Spanish
Susu
Swahili
Swedish
Swiss German
Tachelhit
Taita
Tajik
Talysh
Teso
Thai
Tongan
Turkish
Turkmen
Ukrainian
Urdu
Uyghur
Uzbek
Vietnamese
Vunjo
Wadiyara Koli
Western Cham
Wolof
Welsh
Zoroastrian
Zulu