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IBM Plex

IBM Design · 2017

IBM Plex is a corporate typeface designed to replace Helvetica across IBM’s global communications. Its rationale is financial and ideological: open-source licensing eliminates licence fees; typographic decisions reject expressive or historical categories in favour of functional clarity. It delivers a coherent, documented system — but only within the narrow frame of IBM’s internal brand requirements.