- Heading
- IBM Plex Sans Arabic
- Body text
- IBM Plex Serif
- A serif with a sans serif: clear contrast of structure
- The same x-height: lowercase letters stand equally tall
- A shared mood: business-like
- The body font is made for reading
IBM Plex Sans Arabic
Size72px
Letter spacing0px
Line height1
About the font
IBM Plex Sans Arabic is a free font by Mike Abbink, Bold Monday, Khajag Apelian, Wael Morcos, released under the OFL-1.1 license. Of the 1069 languages we checked, 297 have every letter of their basic alphabet in this font. The x-height is 52% of the em and the capital height is 70%.
IBM Plex Sans Arabic is a sans-serif font with Latin and Arabic script support. It contains 1706 glyphs and comes in 7 static styles with weights from 100 to 700. The font is credited to Mike Abbink, Bold Monday, Khajag Apelian and Wael Morcos. It is free to use under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 (OFL-1.1).
Author
Mike Abbink, Bold Monday, Khajag Apelian, Wael Morcos
License terms
OFL-1.1
Scripts
Latin
Glyphs
1706
Character and uses
- Mood
- calm
- business-like
- Design
- grotesque
Marked from the shapes of the letters by an AI model, not by the author of the font.
Supported languages
IBM Plex Sans Arabic has every letter of the basic alphabet, capitals included, for 297 languages of the 1069 we checked (language data: Google Fonts). The biggest languages come first.
- English
- Spanish
- Portuguese
- German
- French
- Arabic
- Urdu
- Swahili
- Indonesian
- Punjabi
- Javanese
- Persian
- Italian
- Filipino
- Pashto
- Oromo
- Sundanese
- Dutch
- Sindhi
- Uzbek(Latin)
- Cebuano
- Somali(Arabic)
- Somali(Latin)
- Zulu
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- Swedish
- Shona
- Low German
- Quechua
- Central Kurdish
- Kinyarwanda
- Congo Swahili
- Baluchi
- Iloko
- Xhosa
- Dari
- Luba-Lulua
- Afrikaans
- Hiligaynon
- Haitian Creole
- Catalan
- Kimbundu
- Minangkabau
- Swiss German
- Uyghur
- Rundi
- Danish
- Wolaytta
- Albanian
- Tswana
- Luyia
- Finnish
- Kashmiri
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Bemba
- Northern Sotho
- Luo
- Tok Pisin
- Tsonga
- Balinese
- Norwegian
- Mazanderani
- Kalenjin
- Banjar
- Makhuwa
- Sidamo
- Acehnese
- Galician
- Tiv
- Bikol
- Waray
- Sango
- Aymara
- Nyankole
- Hmong
- Jamaican Creole English
- Gusii
- Pampanga
- Beja
- Batak Toba
- Chiga
- Soga
- Swati
- Meru
- Afar
- Occitan
- Northern Luri
- Chadian Arabic
- Scots
- North Ndebele
- Uzbek(Arabic)
- Kongo
- Makonde
- Gheg Albanian
- Kazakh
- Sena
- Norwegian Nynorsk
- Makhuwa-Meetto
- Morisyen
- Kʼicheʼ
- Irish
- Lunda
- Basque
- Khasi
- Sardinian
- Lozi
…and 192 more languages that are not listed here.
Special characters
Characters people often look for. “Included” means the font has all signs of the group.
- Kazakhstani Tenge — Included
- Russian Ruble — Included
- Euro — Included
- Turkish Lira — Included
- Ukrainian Hryvnia — Included
- Indian Rupee — Included
- British Pound — Included
- Japanese Yen — Included
- US Dollar — Included
- Yo (Ё ё) — Not included
- Numero sign — Included
- Guillemets (angle quotes) — Included
- En and em dashes — Included
- Ellipsis — Included
- Legal marks (© ® ™) — Included
- Arrows — Included
- Math signs — Included
Characteristics
- Mapped characters
- 1032
- x-height
- 52% of the em
- Capital height
- 70% of the em
- Version
- 1.101
- Embedding in documents
- Allowed
OpenType features
Extras you can switch on in design software or in CSS with font-feature-settings.
- Standard ligatures
liga - Discretionary ligatures
dlig - Contextual alternates
calt - Kerning
kern - Fractions
frac - Slashed zero
zero - Superscript
sups - Subscript
subs - Ordinals
ordn - Stylistic alternates
salt - Stylistic sets (6)
License at a glance
A plain summary, not legal advice. What counts is the license text that comes with the download.
OFL-1.1
- Commercial projects
- Allowed
- Embedding on a website
- Allowed
- Modifying the font
- Allowed, with conditions
- Sharing the font
- Allowed, with conditions
- Credit and notices
- Keep the notices when you share the font
- Selling the font on its own
- Not allowed
Under the SIL Open Font License a modified font must stay under the same license and may not use the original name if the author reserved it. The font may be bundled with software but not sold by itself.
Read the license textHow to install
Install the .ttf or .otf files, not both versions of the same font; unzip the archive first.
Windows
- Unzip the archive.
- Right-click the .ttf or .otf file and choose Install.
- Restart your program.
macOS
- Unzip the archive.
- Double-click the .ttf or .otf file.
- Click Install Font in the window that opens.
Linux
- Unzip the archive.
- Copy the files to ~/.local/share/fonts.
- Run fc-cache -f -v and restart your program.
Facts and sources
- Where the font comes from
- fonts.google.com/specimen/IBM+Plex+Sans+Arabic
- Designer’s page
- ibm.com
- Language data
- Google Fonts Languages
- Page last updated
FAQ
Is the IBM Plex Sans Arabic font free to use?
Yes. IBM Plex Sans Arabic is distributed under the OFL-1.1 license, which allows free use, including in commercial projects. The license text is in the download.
Does IBM Plex Sans Arabic support Cyrillic?
No, IBM Plex Sans Arabic supports Latin script only.
How many languages does IBM Plex Sans Arabic support?
IBM Plex Sans Arabic covers 297 of the 1069 languages we checked: it has every letter of their basic alphabets, in both cases. The full list is in the Supported languages section of this page.
How do I install IBM Plex Sans Arabic?
Download the family archive and unzip it. On Windows, right-click the .ttf or .otf file and choose Install; on macOS, double-click the file and click Install Font. Restart your program afterwards. Step-by-step guides are in the Guides section.
Who created IBM Plex Sans Arabic?
IBM Plex Sans Arabic was created by Mike Abbink, Bold Monday, Khajag Apelian, Wael Morcos.
What is IBM Plex Sans Arabic good for?
Judging by its design, IBM Plex Sans Arabic suits: interfaces, body text, magazines and editorial.
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