{"id":805,"date":"2017-11-14T09:55:37","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T14:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tech.creed3.com\/?p=805"},"modified":"2017-11-14T09:55:37","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T14:55:37","slug":"ibms-new-font","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tech.creed3.com\/?p=805","title":{"rendered":"IBM&#8217;s New Font"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick blurb about this. &nbsp;IBM has released a new font family, <a href=\"https:\/\/ibm.github.io\/type\/#\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">IBM Plex<\/a>. &nbsp;It&#8217;s open source and available for anyone to use.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Apparently their main reason for developing this font was to stop paying a million a year to continue licensing and using Helvetica, and they&#8217;ve been kind enough to allow the rest of us to use it as well if we like. &nbsp;So I&#8217;ve changed the font on my posts and post headers to IBM Plex for the time being. &nbsp;I found I needed to bump up the font size 1 point on the post text to keep it roughly the same size.<\/p>\n<p>Please take a moment and give me feedback on it, like it or not. &nbsp;All other fonts on the site remain the same for now as a comparison.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to read more about it head on over to <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1124664\/ibm-plex-with-its-first-ever-custom-corporate-font-ibm-is-freeing-itself-from-the-tyranny-of-helvetica\/?ref=webdesignernews.com\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Quartz<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick blurb about this. &nbsp;IBM has released a new font family, IBM Plex. &nbsp;It&#8217;s open source and available for anyone to use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,16],"tags":[63],"class_list":["post-805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology","tag-fonts"],"views":2028,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech.creed3.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech.creed3.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech.creed3.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech.creed3.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech.creed3.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tech.creed3.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech.creed3.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech.creed3.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech.creed3.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}