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IBM Plex

A website for IBM’s open source typeface, Plex.
Cover for IBM Plex showing various glyphs of the IBM Plex typeface

Brief

Tell the story of IBM’s new corporate typeface and help put some cred back into IBM’s design program.

Solution

Together with IBM’s Executive Creative Director and the designer of Plex, Mike Abbink, we designed and built a new website that told the story of their corporate typeface through its historical context, concept, design, and in-use examples.

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ibm.com/plex
Cover graphic for the IBM Plex typetester intro showing IBM Plex glyphs and symbols on a bright blue background.
An IBM Plex ‘A typeface with a story’ page on a blue background, followed by a black diagram explaining the geometric construction of the letter T.
A historical photo of IBM’s colorful System/360 mainframe above a large italic IBM Plex ‘i’, with a modern data centre photo below.
A sheet of round IBM Plex stickers featuring letters and symbols from the typeface.
Three mobile screens from the IBM Plex site: the introduction panel, a typewriter photo with the letter g, and an ampersand layout.
Eight horizontal IBM blue bars on white, echoing IBM’s signature stripe motif.
The IBM Plex letter ‘a’ rendered as a thin white outline on a black background.
Photo of an IBM quantum supercomputer cabinet showing wiring, readouts, and IBM Plex labels.

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