IBM Plex Sans Condensed

Try IBM Plex Sans Condensed

Weights and styles

• Thin 100IBM Plex Sans Condensed Thin Thin Italic
• ExtraLight 200IBM Plex Sans Condensed ExtraLight ExtraLight Italic
• Light 300IBM Plex Sans Condensed Light Light Italic
• Regular 400IBM Plex Sans Condensed Regular Italic
• Medium 500IBM Plex Sans Condensed Medium Medium Italic
• SemiBold 600IBM Plex Sans Condensed SemiBold SemiBold Italic
• Bold 700IBM Plex Sans Condensed Bold Bold Italic

About IBM Plex Sans Condensed

IBM Plex Sans Condensed is a narrow sans serif from IBM Plex, the family IBM uses as its corporate typeface and maintains as an open-source project. The makers describe Plex as neutral yet friendly, in the grotesque style, with engineered details. In the specimen the condensed letters stand tall and close together, the capital I carries slab serifs, curved strokes end in straight cuts, and the a is double-storey. Seven weights from Thin 100 to Bold 700, each with an italic, give 14 styles; the files are static, and the package has no variable version. Its 682 glyphs cover Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese. The credits name Mike Abbink and the foundry Bold Monday. IBM Plex Sans Condensed sits beside the regular-width Sans, the Serif and the Mono, and carries the SIL Open Font License 1.1 with Plex as a Reserved Font Name.

Where IBM Plex Sans Condensed works

Data tables and dashboards

Narrow letters fit more characters into a column, so long labels and values stay on one line.

Mobile interfaces

On small screens the condensed width keeps navigation items and buttons from wrapping.

Long headlines

A multi-word headline in SemiBold or Bold takes less horizontal space than in the regular-width Plex Sans.

Captions, footnotes and legal text

Light to Medium weights with italics set dense secondary text economically.

Plex-based identity systems

It shares the Plex design with the Sans, Serif and Mono, so the narrow cut can be added without changing the visual language.

Glyphs

Language support

The family contains the core letters these languages are written with:

• English
• French
• German
• Spanish
• Portuguese
• Italian
• Dutch
• Swedish
• Norwegian
• Danish
• Finnish
• Icelandic
• Catalan
• Turkish
• Polish
• Czech
• Slovak
• Hungarian
• Romanian
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• Lithuanian
• Latvian
• Estonian
• Vietnamese

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext, vietnamese. The language list is a check of required letters against the font, not a promise of typographic quality in each language.

License

Fonts that pair with IBM Plex Sans Condensed

Suggestions come from simple rules on the records: a contrasting classification and enough weights to carry body text. They are a starting point, not a verdict.

Use IBM Plex Sans Condensed on the web

Download the family and host the files on your own site, then declare them in CSS. Please do not link to the files on trendhub.net: preview files here are subsets and their addresses change.

@font-face {
  font-family: "IBM Plex Sans Condensed";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/IBMPlexSansCondensed-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "IBM Plex Sans Condensed";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/IBMPlexSansCondensed-BoldItalic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "IBM Plex Sans Condensed";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/IBMPlexSansCondensed-ExtraLight.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 200;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "IBM Plex Sans Condensed";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/IBMPlexSansCondensed-ExtraLightItalic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 200;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
/* …and 10 more files in the package, declared the same way */

body {
  font-family: "IBM Plex Sans Condensed", sans-serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves IBM Plex Sans Condensed with this markup:

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=IBM+Plex+Sans+Condensed:ital,wght@0,100;0,200;0,300;0,400;0,500;0,600;0,700;1,100;1,200;1,300;1,400;1,500;1,600;1,700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Static files, 14 of them

The package holds one file per style and no variable font.

Bold is the heaviest weight

The range runs from Thin 100 to Bold 700; there is no ExtraBold or Black.

Russian is not on the language list

There is no Cyrillic subset: Russian, Ukrainian and Bulgarian are not among the languages with a complete letter set, and Greek is absent.

Reserved Font Name

The license notice reserves the name Plex, so a modified version must be released under another name.

FAQs

Collections with IBM Plex Sans Condensed

• Narrow sans-serif fonts for tables and tight layouts

  Condensed and semi-condensed text families that fit more characters per line in tables, sidebars, forms and mobile screens.

Similar fonts

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