- Heading
- Rubik
- Body text
- Roboto Slab
- A serif with a sans serif: clear contrast of structure
- The same x-height: lowercase letters stand equally tall
- A shared mood: calm, friendly
- The body font is made for reading
Rubik
Size72px
Letter spacing0px
Line height1
About the font
Rubik is a free font by Hubert and Fischer, Meir Sadan, Cyreal, Daniel Grumer, Omaima Dajani, released under the OFL-1.1 license. Of the 1069 languages we checked, 414 have every letter of their basic alphabet in this font. The x-height is 52% of the em and the capital height is 70%.
Rubik is a sans-serif font family with slightly rounded corners, designed by Philipp Hubert and Sebastian Fischer at Hubert & Fischer. It is a variable font with 14 styles and weights from 300 to 900. The font contains 1174 glyphs and supports Latin, Cyrillic, Arabic and Kazakh scripts, including the extra Cyrillic letters Kazakh needs. Rubik is free to use under the OFL-1.1 license.
Author
Hubert and Fischer, Meir Sadan, Cyreal, Daniel Grumer, Omaima Dajani
License terms
OFL-1.1
Scripts
Cyrillic; Latin
Glyphs
1174
Character and uses
- Mood
- friendly
- calm
- Design
- rounded
- grotesque
Marked from the shapes of the letters by an AI model, not by the author of the font.
Supported languages
Rubik has every letter of the basic alphabet, capitals included, for 414 languages of the 1069 we checked (language data: Google Fonts). The biggest languages come first.
- English
- Russian
- Spanish
- Portuguese
- German
- French
- Turkish
- Kazakh
- Arabic
- Swahili
- Indonesian
- Javanese
- Persian
- Italian
- Filipino
- Polish
- Oromo
- Sundanese
- Dutch
- Ukrainian
- Cebuano
- Kurdish
- Malagasy
- Romanian
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- Nyanja
- Somali
- Zulu
- Czech
- Swedish
- Hungarian
- Shona
- Low German
- Quechua
- Kinyarwanda
- Wolof
- Congo Swahili
- Turkmen
- Iloko
- Xhosa
- Belarusian
- Dari
- Luba-Lulua
- Afrikaans
- Hiligaynon
- Kikuyu
- Haitian Creole
- Catalan
- Hebrew
- Kimbundu
- Serbian(Latin)
- Minangkabau
- Swiss German
- Bulgarian
- Rundi
- Serbian(Cyrillic)
- Danish
- Wolaytta
- Albanian
- Croatian
- Slovak
- Southern Sotho
- Tswana
- Luyia
- Finnish
- Ganda
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Bemba
- Northern Sotho
- Luo
- Tok Pisin
- Sukuma
- Tsonga
- Balinese
- Norwegian
- Mazanderani
- Kamba
- Kalenjin
- Banjar
- Makhuwa
- Bosnian(Cyrillic)
- Bosnian(Latin)
- Sidamo
- Acehnese
- Galician
- Tiv
- Bikol
- Waray
- Mongolian
- Sango
- Kyrgyz
- Aymara
- Nyankole
- Hmong
- Jamaican Creole English
- Gusii
- Pampanga
- Beja
- Batak Toba
- Lithuanian
- Chiga
- Soga
- Swati
- Tumbuka
- Meru
- Afar
- Occitan
- Chadian Arabic
- Tatar
- Slovenian
- Bashkir
…and 304 more languages that are not listed here.
Special characters
Characters people often look for. “Included” means the font has all signs of the group.
- Kazakhstani Tenge — Included
- Russian Ruble — Included
- Euro — Included
- Turkish Lira — Not included
- Ukrainian Hryvnia — Included
- Indian Rupee — Included
- British Pound — Included
- Japanese Yen — Included
- US Dollar — Included
- Yo (Ё ё) — Included
- Numero sign — Included
- Guillemets (angle quotes) — Included
- En and em dashes — Included
- Ellipsis — Included
- Legal marks (© ® ™) — Included
- Arrows — Not included
- Math signs — Included
Characteristics
- Mapped characters
- 885
- x-height
- 52% of the em
- Capital height
- 70% of the em
- Version
- 2.300;gftools[0.9.30]
- Embedding in documents
- Allowed
OpenType features
Extras you can switch on in design software or in CSS with font-feature-settings.
- Standard ligatures
liga - Discretionary ligatures
dlig - Kerning
kern - Proportional figures
pnum - Tabular figures
tnum - Fractions
frac - Slashed zero
zero - Case-sensitive forms
case - Superscript
sups - Subscript
subs - Ordinals
ordn
License at a glance
A plain summary, not legal advice. What counts is the license text that comes with the download.
OFL-1.1
- Commercial projects
- Allowed
- Embedding on a website
- Allowed
- Modifying the font
- Allowed, with conditions
- Sharing the font
- Allowed, with conditions
- Credit and notices
- Keep the notices when you share the font
- Selling the font on its own
- Not allowed
Under the SIL Open Font License a modified font must stay under the same license and may not use the original name if the author reserved it. The font may be bundled with software but not sold by itself.
Read the license textHow to install
Install the .ttf or .otf files, not both versions of the same font; unzip the archive first.
Windows
- Unzip the archive.
- Right-click the .ttf or .otf file and choose Install.
- Restart your program.
macOS
- Unzip the archive.
- Double-click the .ttf or .otf file.
- Click Install Font in the window that opens.
Linux
- Unzip the archive.
- Copy the files to ~/.local/share/fonts.
- Run fc-cache -f -v and restart your program.
Facts and sources
- Where the font comes from
- fonts.google.com/specimen/Rubik
- Designer’s page
- hubertfischer.com
- Language data
- Google Fonts Languages
- Page last updated
FAQ
Is the Rubik font free to use?
Yes. Rubik is distributed under the OFL-1.1 license, which allows free use, including in commercial projects. The license text is in the download.
Does Rubik support Cyrillic?
Yes, Rubik includes Cyrillic glyphs.
How many languages does Rubik support?
Rubik covers 414 of the 1069 languages we checked: it has every letter of their basic alphabets, in both cases. The full list is in the Supported languages section of this page.
Is Rubik a variable font?
Yes. Rubik is a variable font: weight and other properties change smoothly inside one file instead of needing a separate file for each style.
How do I install Rubik?
Download the family archive and unzip it. On Windows, right-click the .ttf or .otf file and choose Install; on macOS, double-click the file and click Install Font. Restart your program afterwards. Step-by-step guides are in the Guides section.
Who created Rubik?
Rubik was created by Hubert and Fischer, Meir Sadan, Cyreal, Daniel Grumer, Omaima Dajani.
What is Rubik good for?
Judging by its design, Rubik suits: video titles and subtitles, interfaces, headings, body text.
Pairs well with Rubik
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