Rubik Bubbles

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Rubik Bubbles Regular

About Rubik Bubbles

Rubik Bubbles is a display typeface whose letters look as if they were built from foam: each heavy stroke is outlined by dozens of small overlapping circles, leaving a scalloped edge and tiny counters. The shapes were not drawn by hand. The official notes describe the collection as generated by a script from the open Rubik family, with the generating code published separately, and Rubik Bubbles is one of several filtered variants. Underneath the effect the proportions are those of a wide, very bold sans with rounded corners. The font has one style, Regular, and 774 glyphs spanning Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic and Hebrew. NaN and Luke Prowse are credited as designers, and the font's name table also lists Hubert and Fischer, the studio behind the original Rubik.

Where Rubik Bubbles works

Children's party and toy graphics

Letters outlined in bubbles read as soap, foam or clouds without any added illustration.

Drinks, bath and cleaning product titles

The bubbled contour suggests fizz and lather in a product name set large.

Posters in Cyrillic or Hebrew

The effect is applied across Latin, Cyrillic and Hebrew, so a multilingual title keeps one texture.

Stickers and social media captions

A heavy silhouette with a scalloped edge stays recognisable at sticker size on a busy background.

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: Cyrillic, Hebrew. These are listed as scripts, not as a promise for every language written in them.

Character sets found in the files: 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 Bubbles

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 Bubbles 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 Bubbles";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/RubikBubbles-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Rubik Bubbles 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+Bubbles&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

One effect, one style

Rubik Bubbles has a single Regular style. Other effects in the same generated collection are separate families.

Detail needs size

The bubble outline is made of small circles and narrow counters, drawn to be seen at display sizes.

Generated from Rubik

The outlines were produced by code applied to the Rubik family; they were not drawn letter by letter.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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