Rubik Doodle Shadow

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Rubik Doodle Shadow Regular

About Rubik Doodle Shadow

Rubik Doodle Shadow is a display typeface in which every letter is a wobbly pen outline with a patch of diagonal hatching behind it, like a shadow scribbled in a notebook margin. The skeleton underneath is heavy and round-cornered. The official notes describe it as part of a collection of generative fonts produced by code from the open Rubik family, which is credited to Hubert and Fischer with Meir Sadan and Cyreal; the designer credits for this cut name NaN and Luke Prowse. There is one Regular style and no variable axis. The 774 glyphs cover Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic and Hebrew character sets. Because each glyph carries many small hatch strokes, the TTF file is about 1.3 MB, far larger than a plain single-style font. It is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Rubik Doodle Shadow works

Posters for children's events

The scribbled contour and hatched shadow look like marker drawing, which fits titles for school fairs, parties and craft workshops.

One headline style in three scripts

Latin, Cyrillic and Hebrew letters share the same sketch treatment, so a title keeps its look across those versions of a poster.

Stickers and printed merchandise

Short words set large keep the hatch lines visible on stickers, T-shirts and tote bags.

Thumbnails and story graphics

A single hollow word over a flat colour gives a hand-drawn title without commissioning lettering.

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 Doodle Shadow

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

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

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

Things to know

One style only

The family is a single Regular cut with no bold, italic or variable axis.

The detail needs size

The hatch strokes are fine: in the specimen they merge into a grey edge on the small sample line, so the face is meant for large settings.

A heavy file

The download is one TTF of about 1.3 MB and the web font is close to 290 KB, large for a single style.

Credits differ between sources

The designer listing names NaN and Luke Prowse, while the name table inside the font credits Hubert and Fischer and NaN.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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