Nice.
Is it available as a Selectric typeball?
IBM Plex – A new typeface
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Re: IBM Plex – A new typeface
#62In 2018 frontend development reached the point where multiple pages with a working scrollbar seems to be beyond our reach.
In the meantime the "glorious" IBM releases a free font, and this is newsworthy.
I think the Internet, while started out as something really promising, it's done for. Let it die, before it's too late, please. Someone, pull the plug, let's start over. Maybe the next one will be better, who knows.
Re: IBM Plex – A new typeface
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
In the case of Netflix, it is specifically to save on licensing fees. Gotham is expensive, yo. Apple's always had their own typeface, though I don't remember them using one as heavily as San Francisco. But it feels very in-character for them. Samsung did it, I suspect, because Apple did.
Apple's always been focussed on design, in both marketing and UI. In marketing, for a long time everything was Apple Garamond, then Myriad. In the UI, Chicago and Geneva were heavy hitters. Now we have San Francisco. A key difference with this last one is that it's used in both the UI and in marketing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typography_of_Apple_Inc .
> Apple Garamond, then Myriad
The key difference being that Garamond is a classic on its own, and Myriad is even the default font in Adobe products (at least InDesign).
Re: IBM Plex – A new typeface
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
In the case of Netflix, it is specifically to save on licensing fees. Gotham is expensive, yo. Apple's always had their own typeface, though I don't remember them using one as heavily as San Francisco. But it feels very in-character for them. Samsung did it, I suspect, because Apple did.
Apple's always been focussed on design, in both marketing and UI. In marketing, for a long time everything was Apple Garamond, then Myriad. In the UI, Chicago and Geneva were heavy hitters. Now we have San Francisco. A key difference with this last one is that it's used in both the UI and in marketing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typography_of_Apple_Inc .
> A key difference with this last one is that it's used in both the UI and in marketing.
That's exactly what I was getting at, thanks!
Re: IBM Plex – A new typeface
#65Apple, Samsung, Netflix, now IBM... why does everyone need their own typeface? Is it to save on licensing fees? As a user, I don't really find these fonts very distinctive, so I don't associate them with their brands.
Licensing fees savings + brand identity + everyone else is doing it, it seems to me.
Re: IBM Plex – A new typeface
#66This website is so ugly and hard-to-use I honestly thought it was a parody (I still kind of do). Font looks okay, though.
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Re: IBM Plex – A new typeface
#67I'm glad they are wasting their time on this versus being relevant.
Netflix just created a custom font for themselves. If it's good enough for Netflix it's good enough for IBM. 8-)
Re: IBM Plex – A new typeface
#68This is excellent work, and all of the source files and fonts permissively licensed and available on GitHub.
Re: IBM Plex – A new typeface
#69I love the general design. But as others noted, the scrolling behavior is WAY terrible.
Do "normal people" enjoy this type of scrolling behavior?
Re: IBM Plex – A new typeface
#70Too bad the website is so poorly designed. It's actually a nice read through the design decisions. My first glance at the IBM serif made me think it was more of a slab serif like Stymie Bold but the discussion of its use in smaller sizes foes a nice job of explaining the differences.