Mike Abbink and Bold Monday
Mike Abbink is credited on twelve families in the library. The first was added in 2018 and the latest in 2025. By class: nine sans serifs, two monospaced families, one serif. Two are variable fonts. Bold Monday shares the credit on 11 families of them, so both names lead to this page. The most frequent co-credit is Khajag Apelian, on 1 family.
The familiesIn order of addition, each name set in its own outlines
Range of the work
The lowercase runs from IBM Plex Mono, the shortest at 516 units per 1,000 em, to IBM Plex Sans JP at 541. In width, IBM Plex Sans Condensed is the narrowest (457) and Lilex the widest (600). Beyond Latin, the families cover eleven subsets: Arabic, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Devanagari, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Symbols 2, Thai, Vietnamese. Measured against the medians of their own classes, two of the twelve families with ascenders have a taller x-height, two of all twelve set a wider lowercase and none a darker one.
Against the class medianDifferences from the median of each family’s class, per 1,000 em; ink in percentage points
| Family | Class | x-height | Width | Ink | Weights | Subsets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IBM Plex Serif | Serif | +34 | +25 | −3 pts | 100–700 (7) + italic | 5 |
| IBM Plex Sans JP | Sans serif | +22 | +7 | −3 pts | 100–700 (7) | 4 |
| IBM Plex Mono | Monospace | −1 | ±0 | −1 pts | 100–700 (7) + italic | 6 |
| Lilex | Monospace | −1 | ±0 | −1 pts | 100–700 + italic | 7 |
| IBM Plex Sans | Sans serif | −3 | −17 | −2 pts | 100–700 + italic | 6 |
| IBM Plex Sans Arabic | Sans serif | −3 | −17 | −2 pts | 100–700 (7) | 4 |
| IBM Plex Sans Condensed | Sans serif | −3 | −65 | −1 pts | 100–700 (7) + italic | 4 |
| IBM Plex Sans Devanagari | Sans serif | −3 | −17 | −2 pts | 100–700 (7) | 4 |
| IBM Plex Sans Hebrew | Sans serif | −3 | −17 | −2 pts | 100–700 (7) | 4 |
| IBM Plex Sans KR | Sans serif | −3 | −17 | −2 pts | 100–700 (7) | 3 |
| IBM Plex Sans Thai | Sans serif | −3 | −17 | −2 pts | 100–700 (7) | 4 |
| IBM Plex Sans Thai Looped | Sans serif | −3 | −17 | −2 pts | 100–700 (7) | 4 |