Rubik

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Weights and styles

• Light 300Rubik Light Light Italic
• Regular 400Rubik Regular Italic
• Medium 500Rubik Medium Medium Italic
• SemiBold 600Rubik SemiBold SemiBold Italic
• Bold 700Rubik Bold Bold Italic
• ExtraBold 800Rubik ExtraBold ExtraBold Italic
• Black 900Rubik Black Black Italic

Rubik is a variable font: the download holds the whole weight range in one file per style, and the named weights above are positions on that range.

About Rubik

Rubik is a sans serif family whose stroke ends and corners are slightly rounded, which shows in the specimen at Light and becomes more obvious in the squarish, soft-cornered shapes of Black. It originated at the studio Hubert & Fischer, where Philipp Hubert and Sebastian Fischer drew it for the Chrome Cube Lab project. The official notes record later work on other scripts: Meir Sadan redesigned the Hebrew in 2015 and Alexei Vanyashin redesigned the Cyrillic in 2016; the credits also list Cyreal, Daniel Grumer and Omaima Dajani. Rubik is variable in weight from 300 to 900, with seven named weights from Light to Black, each with an italic, 14 styles in total. Its 1,154 glyphs span Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Hebrew and Arabic subsets. Rubik is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Rubik works

Friendly product interfaces

Rounded corners soften buttons and labels, and Regular to SemiBold give the usual interface hierarchy.

Hebrew, Arabic and Latin layouts

Three scripts plus Cyrillic share one family, so a multilingual product keeps the same typographic voice.

Bold marketing headlines

ExtraBold and Black have compact, soft-cornered shapes suited to large promotional lines.

Body copy with emphasis

Italics exist for all seven weights, so emphasis and citations use drawn styles.

Glyphs

Language support

The family contains the core letters these languages are written with:

• English
• French
• German
• Spanish
• Portuguese
• Italian
• Dutch
• Swedish
• Norwegian
• Danish
• Finnish
• Icelandic
• Catalan
• Turkish
• Polish
• Czech
• Slovak
• Hungarian
• Romanian
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• Lithuanian
• Latvian
• Estonian
• Russian
• Ukrainian
• Bulgarian

Writing systems with glyphs in the family besides Latin: Arabic, Cyrillic, Hebrew. These are listed as scripts, not as a promise for every language written in them.

Character sets found in the files: arabic, cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, hebrew, latin, latin-ext. The language list is a check of required letters against the font, not a promise of typographic quality in each language.

License

Fonts that pair with Rubik

Suggestions come from simple rules on the records: a contrasting classification and enough weights to carry body text. They are a starting point, not a verdict.

Use Rubik on the web

Download the family and host the files on your own site, then declare them in CSS. Please do not link to the files on trendhub.net: preview files here are subsets and their addresses change.

@font-face {
  font-family: "Rubik";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Rubik-Italic-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 300 900;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Rubik";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Rubik-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 300 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Rubik", sans-serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Rubik with this markup:

<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=Rubik:ital,wght@0,300..900;1,300..900&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Starts at Light

The weight axis begins at 300. There is no Thin or ExtraLight.

Default instance is Light

The variable file defaults to 300, so declare font-weight 400 when Regular is wanted.

Two variable files

Roman and italic are separate files, each covering 300 to 900.

FAQs

Collections with Rubik

• Fonts for subtitles and video captions

  Plain, sturdy sans-serif families for subtitles and captions, chosen for clear letters at small sizes and, in most cases, wide language coverage.

• Rounded friendly fonts for social media and apps

  Sans-serif and display families with rounded stroke ends: soft, approachable type for social posts, onboarding screens and children's brands.

• Fonts that support Cyrillic

  Open-license families with Cyrillic glyphs beside Latin: text sans and serifs, a monospace, scripts and display faces.

• Fonts that support Hebrew

  Open-license families with Hebrew and Latin drawn to work together: text sans and serifs, rounded and display designs.

• Fonts that support Arabic

  Open-license families for the Arabic script with a matching Latin: Naskh text faces, Kufi-based sans-serifs and display designs.

• Fonts that cover several writing systems

  Families that set Latin together with three or more other scripts in one design, for multilingual sites, apps and documents.

Similar fonts

Other families in the same classification, ordered by shared use tags. All sans serif fonts