Typecase

Open licence · Sans serif

Rubik

Free · open licenceGet it from Google Fonts →

Quiet luxury, approachable

The Rubik webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Rubik.

Rubikthe specimen, from Google Fonts

Measured character

normal x-heightwideflat contrast

Measured from the outlines, not from a description. Each band is a third of the open catalogue: “tall x-height” means taller than two thirds of it, which is a fact about the measurement rather than an opinion.

Fonts similar to Rubik, measured

Ranked by the same engine the app uses, on the ten features it measures, within the sans serif pool. The line under each names how it differs from Rubik, in words, never a percentage.

Quiet luxury, approachable

The Roboto webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Roboto.

Robotoslightly narrower

Quiet luxury, approachable

The Saira webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Saira.

Sairaclose on every measure

Quiet luxury, approachable

The Heebo webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Heebo.

Heeboslightly narrower

These are the first 3 of 992 ranked. The full list, and the same ranking against every font you own, is part of founding access.

What $39 buys →

Rubik as a free alternative to

Rubik is suggested on 10 licensed families’ profiles. The basis is named on each: metric-compatible means the advance widths match, so a swap keeps the line breaks; derived means it was drawn from the same source; the rest are judgement, labelled as such.

In the app

Search the whole open catalogue by name, category and measured character, preview every result in your own words, and save it to a Board. Open the app — the shelf, search and the first three results of any search are free.