designesy.org/frameworks/plex-ibm-complex.ibm.comTypographyscored 2026-10-12the leaderboard
IBM Plex
IBM Plex scores 56.8, grade F: rank 25 of 27 on the leaderboard, 13.2 points below the cohort median of 70.0.
Among the 30
contract score, weekly run of 2026-10-12
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Weekly run of 2026-10-12. Engine 1.3.0.
Every site's score
| Site | Rank | Grade | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Designesy | 1 | A | 100.0 |
| Atlassian Design System | 2 | B | 89.9 |
| GitHub Primer | 3 | B | 89.9 |
| X | 4 | B | 87.8 |
| Figma | 5 | B | 84.4 |
| Wikipedia | 6 | B | 83.8 |
| Apple | 7 | B | 83.1 |
| IBM Carbon | 8 | B | 82.8 |
| Roast by AI | 9 | B | 81.7 |
| Vercel | 10 | B | 81.1 |
| Designesy AI Studio | 11 | C | 74.5 |
| Awwwards | 12 | C | 72.1 |
| Linear | 13 | C | 70.0 |
| Stripe | 14 | C | 70.0 |
| zeroheight | 15 | C | 70.0 |
| Radix Colors | 16 | C | 70.0 |
| V&A Museum | 17 | C | 70.0 |
| Google Stitch | 18 | D | 68.5 |
| Material 3 | 19 | D | 66.4 |
| Notion | 20 | D | 65.5 |
| Adobe Spectrum | 21 | D | 65.1 |
| GitHub | 22 | D | 65.0 |
| Vercel Geist | 23 | D | 64.4 |
| Mozaika | 24 | D | 64.3 |
| IBM Plex (this page) | 25 | F | 56.8 |
| Pentagram | 26 | F | 56.6 |
| FWA | 27 | F | 54.6 |
| The New York Times | not ranked | C | 75.8 |
| Desy Guard | not ranked | C | 73.4 |
| CSS Design Awards | not ranked | F | 44.9 |
By category
batch run of 2026-10-12
Strongest in motion at 83.3, weakest in interaction at 0.0. Above the cohort's mean in 1 of 6 categories the batch could score.
Batch run of 2026-10-12. Weights are relative and sum to 117 across all 14 categories.
The numbers
| Category | Weight | Score | Cohort mean | Pass | Warn | Fail | Skip |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Typography | 18 | 33.3 | 72.6 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 9 |
| Accessibility | 15 | 50.0 | 60.8 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3 |
| Color roles | 12 | Not measured | 65.9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Motion | 10 | 83.3 | 67.2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Tokens | 9 | Not measured | 92.7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Interface feel | 8 | Not measured | 77.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Control polish | 7 | 50.0 | 81.7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Page basics | 6 | 75.0 | 88.3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Interaction | 6 | 0.0 | 63.3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Performance | 6 | Not measured | Not measured | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Responsive | 3 | Not measured | Not measured | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Reading
- This week
- Unchanged since the previous weekly run, at 56.8.
- Checks
- Of the 41 checks the engine scored, 7 passed, 10 warned, 2 failed and 22 were skipped as not applicable. Checks that need a browser are left to a person and are not counted here.
- Tokens
- 0 custom properties declared on :root, the layer the tokens category reads.
- Why it is here
- Seeded as a design-system exemplar: Org-first type system.
Peers in Typography
1 of 1 in the group · rank is among all 30
| Rank | Site | Score | By category |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | IBM Plex this page | F56.8 |