# Rubik Glitch font > A heavy rounded sans torn by horizontal glitch streaks, generated by script from Rubik, in one style. Rubik Glitch is a display typeface in which heavy rounded letters are sliced by horizontal streaks, like a corrupted video signal. Rubik Glitch was generated by script from the Rubik family and is credited to NaN and Luke Prowse. Rubik Glitch has one Regular style with 774 glyphs across Latin, Cyrillic and Hebrew, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. ## Facts - Classification: [Display](https://trendhub.net/fonts/category/display) - Designed by: NaN, Luke Prowse - License: SIL Open Font License 1.1 (https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/) - Styles: 1 (Regular 400) - Variable font: No - Glyphs: 774 - Character sets: cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, hebrew, latin, latin-ext - Last updated: 2025-05-30 - Official source: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Rubik+Glitch - Page: https://trendhub.net/fonts/rubik-glitch - Tagged for: Headlines, Posters, Social media, Tech ## 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. ## License SIL Open Font License 1.1. Copyright 2020 The Rubik Filtered Project Authors (https://https://github.com/NaN-xyz/Rubik-Filtered) Allowed: - Use the fonts in personal and commercial work, in print, on the web and in apps. - Modify the fonts and build new versions from them. - Redistribute the fonts, on their own or bundled with software, as long as the license text and copyright notice go with them. Conditions: - The fonts cannot be sold by themselves. - A modified version must stay under the same license and cannot use a Reserved Font Name without the copyright holder's permission. - The authors' names cannot be used to promote a modified version without permission. Summary only, not legal advice. Full text: https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/ ## Where it 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. ## 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 ### Is Rubik Glitch free for commercial use? Yes. Rubik Glitch is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows personal and commercial use, modification and redistribution. The font cannot be sold on its own, and modified versions stay under the same license. ### Who designed Rubik Glitch? Rubik Glitch is credited to NaN and Luke Prowse in the catalogue, while the font's name table lists Hubert and Fischer and NaN. It was generated by script from the Rubik typeface. ### How many weights does Rubik Glitch have? Rubik Glitch has one weight, Regular 400. ### How was Rubik Glitch made? Rubik Glitch was generated with code: according to the official notes, glyph filters were run over the Rubik fonts to produce a collection of filtered variants, of which Rubik Glitch is one. ### Which languages does Rubik Glitch support? Rubik Glitch includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages such as French, German, Turkish and Polish, as well as Russian, Ukrainian and Bulgarian, and it contains a Hebrew character set. ### What fonts pair well with Rubik Glitch? Rubik pairs with Rubik Glitch because it is the source design: the plain family sets the text and the glitched version the headline. --- Source: https://trendhub.net/fonts/rubik-glitch (trendhub)