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Rubik

Rubik lists six script subsets, more than 92% of the sans serifs. It offers seven weights, each with an italic, which is more styles than 86% of the sans serifs have. It sets a wider lowercase than 78% of the 732 sans serifs.

Outlines drawn from the Rubik file at weight 400. The dashed line is the median x-height of the sans serifs.

Measure, per 1,000 em	Rubik	Median of 732 sans serifs
Ascender (top of d)	710	740
Cap height (top of H)	700	702
x-height (top of x)	520	519
Descender (foot of p)	−190	−213
x-height ÷ cap height	0.74	0.70
Average lowercase width	531	522
Ink coverage, a–z	43.2%	40.2%

Versions and companionsA shared designer and a shared name or matching measurements

Version	Compared with Rubik	Added
Rubik Mono One	no ascenders (capital forms on the lowercase keys); lowercase wider by 319; static files only	2014
Rubik One	lowercase wider by 93; static files only	2014

Where it sitsEvery sans serif family is a dot

X-height across the 716 sans serifs with ascenders

294672

Just below: Alef, Dotum; just above: Raleway, Amiko; level with: Aldrich, Cal Sans, Hedvig Letters Sans

Average lowercase width across the 732 sans serifs

1831,319

Just below: Nokora, Noto Sans HK; just above: Chocolate Classical Sans, Jura

Weights and styles

One variable file per style covers every weight from 300 to 900.

Axis	Tag	Range	In the library
Weight	wght	300 to 900	545 families

ScriptsFamilies sharing each subset

Inside the file

In the measured file: 1,174 glyphs and 885 mapped Unicode characters; 24 OpenType feature tags.

Declared features: tabular figures, proportional figures, fractions, superscripts, subscripts, ordinals, standard ligatures, discretionary ligatures, slashed zero and case-sensitive forms.

Measured neighboursClosest in proportion; differences per 1,000 em

Onesttaller x-height, narrower Zalando Sansshorter x-height, narrower Chivoshorter x-height, wider Sansationshorter x-height, narrower Scoutie Sansshorter x-height, narrower Golos Texttaller x-height, wider

Outside the sans serif class

Funnel Displayshorter x-height, wider Redaction 100shorter x-height, narrower Montagu Slabshorter x-height, wider

Rank every family against Rubik

Same designer

Meir Sadan is also credited on David Libre. Cyreal is credited on 34 other families in the library, from Yanone Kaffeesatz (2010) to Sumana (2015); the closest of them in x-height and width is Brawler.