Rubik Mono One

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Rubik Mono One Regular

About Rubik Mono One

Rubik Mono One is a monospaced typeface in one very heavy style. Every character occupies the same width, corners are slightly rounded, and in the specimen the lowercase row renders as capitals, so text appears in capitals whichever case is typed. Narrow letters such as I are widened with slab-like bars to fill their cell, and the result is a wide, blocky texture with clear gaps between letters. The official notes place it in the Rubik family, which Philipp Hubert and Sebastian Fischer of the studio Hubert & Fischer drew for the Chrome Cube Lab project, and describe it as the monospaced sister of Rubik's Black roman. The font has 531 glyphs in the Latin, Latin Extended and Cyrillic subsets, is registered as Regular and has no variable axes. Rubik Mono One is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Rubik Mono One works

Poster and banner headlines

Equal-width heavy capitals stack into even blocks when lines have the same number of letters.

Game titles and scoreboards

Fixed widths keep counters and scores from shifting as digits change.

Logos in capitals

Rounded corners soften the block letters of a short name.

Cyrillic display lines

The Cyrillic set lets Russian, Ukrainian or Bulgarian headlines use the same blocky style.

Glyphs

Language support

The family contains the core letters these languages are written with:

• English
• French
• Spanish
• Portuguese
• Italian
• Dutch
• Swedish
• Norwegian
• Danish
• Finnish
• Icelandic
• Catalan
• Polish
• Czech
• Slovak
• Hungarian
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• Lithuanian
• 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, 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 Mono One

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

body {
  font-family: "Rubik Mono One", monospace;
}

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

Things to know

Capitals only

In the specimen, lowercase input displays as capitals.

Monospaced, but a display face

It has one style, drawn black, and capital-only letters; the fixed width is a headline device here, not a coding feature.

Registered as Regular

The file reports weight 400 although the drawing is black. There is no italic.

FAQs

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