# Rubik font

> A sans with slightly rounded corners, variable from Light to Black with italics, in Latin, Cyrillic, Hebrew and Arabic.

Rubik is a sans serif with slightly rounded corners that Philipp Hubert and Sebastian Fischer drew for the Chrome Cube Lab project. As a variable font, Rubik has a weight axis from 300 to 900, seven weights and italics, 14 styles in all. Rubik is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits interfaces, branding and multilingual text.

## Facts

- Classification: [Sans Serif](https://trendhub.net/fonts/category/sans-serif)
- Designed by: Hubert and Fischer, Meir Sadan, Cyreal, Daniel Grumer, Omaima Dajani
- License: SIL Open Font License 1.1 (https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/)
- Styles: 14 (Light 300, Regular 400, Medium 500, SemiBold 600, Bold 700, ExtraBold 800, Black 900; with italics)
- Variable font: Yes (wght 300–900)
- Glyphs: 1154
- Character sets: arabic, cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, hebrew, latin, latin-ext
- Last updated: 2025-09-10
- Official source: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Rubik
- Page: https://trendhub.net/fonts/rubik
- Tagged for: Body text, Interfaces, Branding, Rounded

## About Rubik

Rubik is a sans serif family whose stroke ends and corners are slightly rounded, which shows in the specimen at Light and becomes more obvious in the squarish, soft-cornered shapes of Black. It originated at the studio Hubert & Fischer, where Philipp Hubert and Sebastian Fischer drew it for the Chrome Cube Lab project. The official notes record later work on other scripts: Meir Sadan redesigned the Hebrew in 2015 and Alexei Vanyashin redesigned the Cyrillic in 2016; the credits also list Cyreal, Daniel Grumer and Omaima Dajani. Rubik is variable in weight from 300 to 900, with seven named weights from Light to Black, each with an italic, 14 styles in total. Its 1,154 glyphs span Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Hebrew and Arabic subsets. Rubik is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

## License

SIL Open Font License 1.1. Copyright 2015 The Rubik Project Authors (https://github.com/googlefonts/rubik)

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

- **Friendly product interfaces**: Rounded corners soften buttons and labels, and Regular to SemiBold give the usual interface hierarchy.
- **Hebrew, Arabic and Latin layouts**: Three scripts plus Cyrillic share one family, so a multilingual product keeps the same typographic voice.
- **Bold marketing headlines**: ExtraBold and Black have compact, soft-cornered shapes suited to large promotional lines.
- **Body copy with emphasis**: Italics exist for all seven weights, so emphasis and citations use drawn styles.

## Things to know

- **Starts at Light**: The weight axis begins at 300. There is no Thin or ExtraLight.
- **Default instance is Light**: The variable file defaults to 300, so declare font-weight 400 when Regular is wanted.
- **Two variable files**: Roman and italic are separate files, each covering 300 to 900.

## FAQs

### Is Rubik free for commercial use?

Yes. Rubik is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows use in personal and commercial work, modification and redistribution. The font cannot be sold on its own, and modified versions stay under the same license.

### Who designed Rubik?

Rubik was designed by Philipp Hubert and Sebastian Fischer of Hubert and Fischer. The credits also list Meir Sadan, Cyreal, Daniel Grumer and Omaima Dajani.

### How many weights does Rubik have?

Rubik has seven weights, from Light 300 to Black 900, each with an italic, for 14 styles.

### Is Rubik a variable font?

Yes. Rubik is a variable font with one axis, weight, from 300 to 900.

### Which languages does Rubik support?

Rubik includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages such as German, French, Turkish and Polish, as well as Russian, Ukrainian and Bulgarian, and its files also carry Hebrew and Arabic character sets.

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Source: https://trendhub.net/fonts/rubik (trendhub)