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The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 0123456789 — the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs. How vexingly quick daft zebras jump!
7 weights · Sans-serif
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of IBM Plex Sans Arabic
Measured from the real outline files, normalised to a 1.0 x-height — the numbers we compare when matching your image against the library.
x-height
Medium
0.739
stroke weight
14% of cap height
0.144
contrast
Low
0.173
letter width
Normal
0.962
Web embed
Use IBM Plex Sans Arabic on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=IBM+Plex+Sans+Arabic:wght@100;200;300;400&display=swap');
/* IBM Plex Sans Arabic */
body {
font-family: 'IBM Plex Sans Arabic', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Details
- Family
- IBM Plex Sans Arabic
- Category
- Sans-serif
- Designers
- Mike Abbink, Bold Monday, Khajag Apelian
- Added to Google Fonts
- June 17, 2021
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- arabic, cyrillic-ext, latin, latin-ext
About the IBM Plex Sans Arabic font
IBM Plex Sans Arabic is a sans-serif typeface designed by Mike Abbink and Bold Monday and Khajag Apelian, first released to Google Fonts on June 2021. It ships with 7 weights and is licenced under the SIL Open Font License, which permits commercial use in websites, apps, documents and print without attribution or payment.
Its measured character is a medium x-height at 74% of the cap height, normal letter forms and low stroke contrast. Those three numbers are what the font finder uses to narrow an image down to the closest matches, so you can compare IBM Plex Sans Arabic against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether IBM Plex Sans Arabic is the face in a screenshot you have? Run it through the free font identifier, or browse the full library of 1,935 open-source fonts for something with a similar feel.