Rubik Dirt

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Rubik Dirt Regular

About Rubik Dirt

Rubik Dirt is a display typeface whose thick, round-cornered letters are broken up by flecks and scratches, as if printed from a worn stamp. According to the official notes it belongs to a collection produced by script from the open Rubik family, and the project publishes the generating code. The underlying shapes are very heavy with small counters, and the texture eats into both the edges and the insides of the strokes, so each letter differs slightly in density. The family has one Regular style and is not a variable font. Its 774 glyphs cover Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic and Hebrew character sets. Google Fonts credits NaN and Luke Prowse, while the name table inside the font lists Hubert and Fischer alongside NaN. The files are published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Rubik Dirt works

Gig and event posters

Heavy letters with a worn-ink surface give a title the look of a rough print at poster sizes, where the speckles are visible.

Video titles and thumbnails

The thick strokes stay readable over images while the texture adds grit to a short title.

Packaging with a stamped look

A product name set large reads like a rubber stamp on labels, bags and boxes.

Titles in Cyrillic or Hebrew

Cyrillic and Hebrew character sets carry the same distressed texture, so a headline can keep one look across those scripts.

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 Dirt

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

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

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

Things to know

Texture needs size

The flecks are fine detail inside heavy strokes. In the specimen's small sample line they nearly close up, so the effect shows only at large sizes.

Large font file

The download is a single TTF of 1,492,164 bytes and the WOFF2 web file is 408,704 bytes, so check page weight before using it on a website.

One style

There is one Regular style, with no bold or italic.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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