Rubik Glitch

Try Rubik Glitch

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Rubik Glitch Regular

About Rubik Glitch

Rubik Glitch is an effect typeface: a very bold rounded sans whose outlines have been shredded sideways. In the specimen every letter is cut into thin horizontal bands that slide left and right, leaving ragged edges and streaks trailing off the strokes, as if the image were tearing on a faulty screen. The official notes explain that the design was produced by code — glyph filters applied to Rubik, which the notes attribute to Hubert and Fischer with Meir Sadan and Cyreal — and that it is one of several filtered Rubik fonts. There is one Regular 400 file and no variable axis. The 774 glyphs cover Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic and Hebrew character sets. The catalogue credits NaN and Luke Prowse; the name table lists Hubert and Fischer and NaN. The license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Rubik Glitch works

Glitch-art posters

The tearing effect is drawn into the letters, so a poster title needs no image editing to look distorted.

Music and club flyers

A heavy base weight keeps an event name readable through the horizontal streaks at flyer sizes.

Stream and video thumbnails

One or two words in Rubik Glitch signal error, static or hacking themes at a glance.

Cyrillic and Hebrew titles

Cyrillic and Hebrew character sets carry the same effect, so a title can be localised without changing the look.

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 Glitch

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

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

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

Things to know

The effect cannot be switched off

The streaks are part of each outline. For clean text with the same skeleton, use Rubik itself.

One style

Rubik Glitch has Regular 400 only, although the letters are as heavy as a black weight.

A large file for one style

The single TTF is about 407 KB.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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