IBM/plex on Hacker News — Hacker GitHub

…there were a way to do it system-wide on my Android phone... [1]: https://www.ibm.com/plex/ [2]: https://github.com/IBM/plex/blob/master/LICENSE.txt Preview: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/IBM+Plex+Sans?preview.text...

comment by sneela · 2025-12-30 · in Public Sans – A strong, neutral typeface

IBM Plex Mono is pretty good, with a reasonable license. It's on Google Fonts, and the repo is here: https://github.com/IBM/plex

comment by sampullman · 2024-08-28 · in The Monospace Web

IBM released a typeface a couple of years ago with much marketing fan fare: https://www.ibm.com/plex/ https://github.com/IBM/plex On another note, are there any notable examples of AI-generated mono-spaced programmer fonts?

comment by reassembled · 2023-05-13 · in Intel One Mono Typeface

…something that just feels "right" about using IBM's font in this case. [0] http://tn5250j.org/ [1] https://github.com/IBM/plex

comment by racingmars · 2023-05-02 · in IBM AS/400: Databases all the way down (2019) [video]

…- https://github.com/MithrilJS/mithril.js And lastly, fonts: - https://github.com/rsms/inter - https://github.com/IBM/plex - https://github.com/weiweihuanghuang/Work-Sans Aggregated from from: - https://slimvoice.co/about -…

comment by craftuser · 2023-01-09 · in Ask HN: Slimvoice Alternative?

…The typeface is a modification of IBM Plex Mono[0][1]. I'd recognise that 'a' glyph anywhere . [0]: https://github.com/IBM/plex [1]: https://www.ibm.com/plex/

comment by delta_p_delta_x · 2022-11-07 · in Almost monospaced: the perfect fonts for writing

I like using IBM Plex Mono. https://github.com/IBM/plex • https://www.ibm.com/plex/

comment by DHPersonal · 2022-07-11 · in Ask HN: What is your default font for coding and terminal?

Looks like they they do have a variable font for Plex Sans https://github.com/IBM/plex/tree/master/IBM-Plex-Sans-Variab...

comment by awright415 · 2022-02-11 · in IBM Plex Typeface (2018)

Less informative/marketing/design, just the downloads: https://github.com/IBM/plex

comment by Tomte · 2022-02-11 · in IBM Plex Typeface (2018)

…re-designed my CV (15 pages down to 2) and used IBM Plex for all of it... happy so far. [1] https://github.com/IBM/plex

comment by DataCrayon · 2021-08-17 · in Helvetica Now Variable

…of lower case 'a' and 'g'? I greatly prefer the simplified glyphs for programming. Like IBM's Plex. https://github.com/IBM/plex Adobe's Source Code Pro uses curly glyphs for the normal typeface and simplified for italics, which seems…

comment by specialist · 2021-07-30 · in The Inter typeface family

Personally I prefer IBM Plex Mono and family. https://github.com/IBM/plex

comment by brisance · 2019-11-25 · in Nerd Fonts

Erm, IBM Plex, of course... ;-) https://github.com/IBM/plex

comment by NikolaNovak · 2019-04-08 · in Public Sans – A strong, neutral typeface for text or display

I quite like IBM Plex Mono as a programming font... https://github.com/IBM/plex would be nice if the page has a way of making suggestions of fonts to add.

comment by keithnz · 2019-01-21 · in Programming Fonts – Test Drive

I struggled to find it so you don't have to -- here's the download link: https://github.com/IBM/plex/releases Seriously though, what an atrocious site...

comment by shrikant · 2019-01-14 · in Input: Fonts for Code

…for any decent looking font. There are many high quality open source fonts available. For example: https://github.com/IBM/plex http://www.latofonts.com/lato-free-fonts/ Many foundries such as Grilli Type have free trials (…

comment by perchard · 2018-12-09 · in Get the Font

…want to pay for a typeface, there are many very good open source options available. For example: https://github.com/IBM/plex http://www.latofonts.com/lato-free-fonts/

comment by perchard · 2018-12-09 · in Get the Font

> don't steal https://github.com/IBM/plex "This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1."

comment by robotresearcher · 2018-03-29 · in IBM Plex – A new typeface

…bitmaps of the font (useful for those who, wisely, don't load every font the page says to load). https://github.com/IBM/plex has the free font.

comment by Digital-Citizen · 2018-03-29 · in IBM Plex – A new typeface

…work, and all of the source files and fonts permissively licensed and available on GitHub. https://github.com/IBM/plex

comment by zachrose · 2018-03-28 · in IBM Plex – A new typeface

Here's the download page if you want to avoid the horrific-to-navigate site: https://github.com/IBM/plex/releases/tag/v1.0.1

comment by uptown · 2018-03-28 · in IBM Plex – A new typeface

…a generic tag at the very top of the README and is guaranteed to exist in every github repo. E.g.: https://github.com/ibm/type#readme

comment by shurcooL · 2017-11-08 · in IBM Type

That's why I tend to link to the anchor of the README title, if I can, e.g. https://github.com/ibm/type#ibm-type Something I picked up from @jsvine, who pointed out that when they open-source their data stuff from BuzzFeed, it makes it…

comment by goerz · 2017-11-08 · in IBM Type

Thanks for the love and critique. Issues are love too: https://github.com/ibm/type/issues/new Some things to keep in mind: — v1 will not be released until early next year. We published publicly so it is easy for teams to test and give…

comment by seejamescode · 2017-11-08 · in IBM Type

They actually have a message in the footer that says “Leave us an issue.” Ha. https://github.com/ibm/type/issues/new

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comment by fredley · 2017-11-08 · in IBM Type