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Sora + IBM Plex Sans

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Grumpy wizards make toxic brew

A standfirst set in IBM Plex Sans, one size up — where a pairing starts earning trust.

The five boxing wizards jump quickly over the lazy dog, mixing jugs of quiet vodka while the jury watches. Click anywhere in this preview and type your own text to try the pairing.

“Type is a beautiful group of letters, not a group of beautiful letters.”

— Matthew Carter

Fig. 1 — Sora over IBM Plex Sans, in the wild.

Sora 700 / IBM Plex Sans 400 — click any section and type your own copy.

Why it works

Sora's tight apertures and compact, slightly futuristic geometry were drawn for the Web3 world, and at bold it makes dense, high-tech headlines. IBM Plex Sans complements it from the corporate-engineering side: a grotesque with subtle humanist detailing, designed to stay neutral and legible across long UI copy and documentation. Both faces feel machined rather than drawn, so the page reads consistently technical, but Plex's open counters keep body paragraphs from inheriting Sora's density.

More about each face: Sora · IBM Plex Sans

Use this pairing

HTML — Google Fonts embed
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Sora:wght@700&family=IBM+Plex+Sans:wght@400;600&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">
CSS
h1, h2, h3 {
  font-family: 'Sora', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
  font-weight: 700;
}

body {
  font-family: 'IBM Plex Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
  font-weight: 400;
}
Next.js — next/font
import { Sora, IBM_Plex_Sans } from "next/font/google";

const heading = Sora({
  subsets: ["latin"],
  weight: "700",
  variable: "--font-heading",
});

const body = IBM_Plex_Sans({
  subsets: ["latin"],
  weight: "400",
  variable: "--font-body",
});
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