IBM Plex Sans Medium
IBM Plex Sans Medium is the weight 500 face of IBM Plex Sans, a sans serif family. Its lowercase letters are about as wide as the typical sans serif font.
Measured metrics
| Average lowercase letter width | 518.8 units per 1000 em |
|---|---|
| Average capital letter width | 647.3 units per 1000 em |
| Word space | 236 units per 1000 em |
| Digits | tabular (every digit is 600 units wide, so columns of numbers line up) |
| Spacing | proportional |
| Width of i compared with m | 30% |
| Printable ASCII characters covered | 94 of 94 |
| Category | Sans serif |
Fonts closest to IBM Plex Sans Medium
Measured on every printable character both fonts contain. A smaller difference means the same words take the same space, so lines break in the same places.
- IBM Plex Sans Thai Looped Mediumidentical letter widths (0.4 units)
- IBM Plex Sans KR Mediumidentical letter widths (0.4 units)
- IBM Plex Sans Arabic Mediumidentical letter widths (0.4 units)
- IBM Plex Sans Hebrew Mediumidentical letter widths (0.4 units)
- IBM Plex Sans Devanagari Mediumidentical letter widths (0.4 units)
- IBM Plex Sans Thai Mediumidentical letter widths (0.4 units)
- Anuphan Mediumnearly identical widths (2.6 units)
- Anuphan SemiBoldvery close widths (6.7 units)
Editing a PDF that uses IBM Plex Sans Medium
Most PDFs embed only the letters they already use. Type a new letter and many editors either refuse or swap in a different font. MythosPDF recognises IBM Plex Sans Medium from the widths stored in your PDF, loads the complete open font, and sets your new text in IBM Plex Sans Medium itself. The rest of the page is carried over untouched.
Other IBM Plex Sans styles
- IBM Plex Sans Thin Italic
- IBM Plex Sans Thin
- IBM Plex Sans ExtraLight Italic
- IBM Plex Sans ExtraLight
- IBM Plex Sans Light Italic
- IBM Plex Sans Light
- IBM Plex Sans Italic
- IBM Plex Sans Regular
- IBM Plex Sans Medium Italic
- IBM Plex Sans SemiBold Italic
- IBM Plex Sans SemiBold
- IBM Plex Sans Bold Italic
- IBM Plex Sans Bold
Questions people ask
+What font is closest to IBM Plex Sans Medium?
Among open fonts in the catalogue, IBM Plex Sans Thai Looped Medium has the closest letter widths to IBM Plex Sans Medium: identical letter widths, a mean difference of 0.4 units per 1000 em.
+Does IBM Plex Sans Medium have tabular numbers?
Yes. All ten digits are 600 units wide, so numbers in tables and invoices line up.
+Can I type new text in IBM Plex Sans Medium inside a PDF?
Yes. MythosPDF recognises the font from your PDF, loads the complete IBM Plex Sans font, and sets new letters in IBM Plex Sans Medium.
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