Download IBM Plex Sans, free ↗Google FontsChicago itself is licensed. IBM Plex Sans is the closest free face, free for personal and commercial work under the Open Font License.
01Set it yourself
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02Put it to work
Your words from the specimen, set in IBM Plex Sans in the formats a project actually needs, in the colours you picked above.
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Tip. Headline in IBM Plex Sans, standing in for Chicago, body copy in IBM Plex Mono. Copy the CSS from the specimen above and the headline is ready to paste into your site.
03Every character
AU+0041 · IBM Plex Sans 600
72pxChicago
48pxChicago
32pxChicago
20pxThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, 1234567890.
14pxThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, 1234567890.
04The free stand-in: IBM Plex Sans
Why IBM Plex Sans. Early bitmap-system look; Plex Sans keeps the squared, systemic feel. Chicago itself is a licensed typeface, so everything on this page is set in IBM Plex Sans, which is free to use on the web and in print.
IBM Plex Sans, on its own. A grotesque with a faint engineering squareness. IBM's system voice, and it sounds like one.
If Chicago is installed on your computer, an A/B key appears in the specimen above so you can compare the two.