- Heading
- Rubik Microbe
- Body text
- Bitter
- A showy heading over a quiet text face
- The same x-height: lowercase letters stand equally tall
- The body font is made for reading
Rubik Microbe
About the font
Rubik Microbe is a free font by NaN, Luke Prowse, released under the OFL-1.1 license. Of the 1069 languages we checked, 407 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 Microbe is a display font with 774 glyphs in one regular style at weight 400. It is not a variable font. It supports Latin, Cyrillic and Kazakh, including the extra Cyrillic letters Kazakh needs. Based on the Rubik typeface, it is a script-generated filtered version created by NaN and Luke Prowse. The font is free to use under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 (OFL-1.1).
Author
NaN, Luke Prowse
License terms
OFL-1.1
Scripts
Cyrillic; Latin
Glyphs
774
Character and uses
- Mood
- playful
- futuristic
- Design
- rounded
- decorative
- Good for
Marked from the shapes of the letters by an AI model, not by the author of the font.
Supported languages
Rubik Microbe has every letter of the basic alphabet, capitals included, for 407 languages of the 1069 we checked (language data: Google Fonts). The biggest languages come first.
- English
- Russian
- Spanish
- Portuguese
- French
- Turkish
- Kazakh
- Swahili
- Indonesian
- Javanese
- Italian
- Filipino
- Polish
- Oromo
- Sundanese
- Dutch
- Ukrainian
- Cebuano
- Kurdish
- Malagasy
- Romanian
- Nyanja
- Somali
- Zulu
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- Czech
- Swedish
- Hungarian
- Shona
- Quechua
- Kinyarwanda
- Wolof
- Congo Swahili
- Turkmen
- Iloko
- Xhosa
- Belarusian
- 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
- 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
- Chuvash
- Scots
- North Ndebele
- Macedonian
…and 299 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
- 689
- x-height
- 52% of the em
- Capital height
- 70% of the em
- Version
- 2.200
- Embedding in documents
- Allowed
OpenType features
Extras you can switch on in design software or in CSS with font-feature-settings.
- Standard ligatures
liga - 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+Microbe
- Designer’s page
- hubertfischer.com
- Language data
- Google Fonts Languages
- Page last updated
FAQ
Is the Rubik Microbe font free to use?
Yes. Rubik Microbe 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 Microbe support Cyrillic?
Yes, Rubik Microbe includes Cyrillic glyphs.
How many languages does Rubik Microbe support?
Rubik Microbe covers 407 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.
How do I install Rubik Microbe?
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 Microbe?
Rubik Microbe was created by NaN, Luke Prowse.
What is Rubik Microbe good for?
Judging by its design, Rubik Microbe suits: social media, posters, headings.
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