Graphic design, illustration,
and lettering in Chicago

Rubik's Cube-style puzzle with each face printed with modular letterform strokes instead of colors

ERNO TYPE 2015


Named after the inventor of the Rubik's Cube—Erno Rubik—this toy uses a series of simple, modular elements that can be endlessly rearranged into variable letterforms and other shapes.


There is also a typeface version of this which comes in four variations—Standard, Variable Width, Wavy, and Eclectic—which are intended to be used in combination with one another. Click here to download it. If you want to build your own characters to use you can download this Illustrator file, which has everything you need.


This project was featured on Stefan Sagmeister's Instagram as part of his series on beauty.

Erno Type puzzle cube next to its kraft packaging box, printed with a question mark, and an unfolded instruction booklet showing the alphabet key Overhead view of eight solved Erno Type cube faces, each spelling out a different letterform from the modular stroke system Grid of dozens of Erno Type cube faces, each arranged into a different custom letterform from the modular stroke system Sketchbook page of hand-drawn alphabet studies and cube-face diagrams developing the Erno Type letterform system