Serif1 style26 languages
Static Ruin Grotesk Chipped Midline Slab Font
A a g R & Aa
AI-generated
Decorative · 1 style · 345 characters · Version 0.1.0 · Published September 24, 2026
Static Ruin Grotesk combines narrow, heavy capitals with squared feet and chipped edges that repeatedly interrupt the letters around their middle.
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The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Design
Chipped Midline Slab Letterforms
Static Ruin Grotesk combines narrow, heavy capitals with squared feet and chipped edges that repeatedly interrupt the letters around their middle. The H keeps a thick crossbar between upright stems, while small bites and projecting fragments roughen its sides. The O has clipped outer corners and a tall, narrow counter whose edges wobble inward. The R carries a compact bowl above a forceful diagonal leg, with an uneven junction adding to the fractured outline. Broad, nearly even strokes keep the black shapes substantial despite the cuts. The result feels battered and stern, with a compact rhythm that gives short wording a gritty presence.
Test the font in your wording
Inspect repeated Latin capitals, especially the narrow counters in O and the crowded cuts in W, using your actual wording. Compare larger and smaller previews for lost chips or closing gaps. Check lowercase, accents and any other required scripts separately; these specimens establish only the displayed uppercase forms.
Font pairing roles
Try this face for the main heading, with a plain sans serif for supporting text and labels. Its chipped outlines already supply considerable texture, so a companion with smooth contours could give secondary information a visibly calmer role.
Static Ruin Grotesk: letterforms and layout
Distinctive letterforms
O
R
W
Compare the layout
Same font, different settingsHELLO WORLD
HELLO WORLD
Compare the original spacing with a wider setting. Watch how the repeated L shapes and broad W distribute the dark strokes, and whether extra space separates the chipped silhouettes more than your composition needs.
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Same wording · 40pxHELLO WORLD
In this uppercase phrase, Static Ruin Grotesk has narrow, blocky letters with squared feet and repeated chips across their sides. The angular O and jagged W give the line a rough, compressed rhythm suited to a gritty title.
HELLO WORLD
Frosty Duplex sets the same uppercase phrase in broader letters with rounded terminals. Detached curved marks hover above the main strokes, separated by background gaps. Its smooth bowls and repeated overhead arcs suggest a softer decorative direction.
Static Ruin Grotesk font in use
AFTER HOURS
Poster. Heavy capitals and repeated edge chips give an event title a rough texture against a plain poster background. BROKEN SIGNAL
Book or album cover. Narrow letterforms and fractured outlines suit a stark album cover with room around its main title. HOLD YOUR GROUND
T-shirt print. Squared feet and dense black strokes give a short shirt slogan a firm, visibly battered character.
The scenes are illustrations drawn on this page with Static Ruin Grotesk itself, not client work.
How this page was made. Static Ruin Grotesk is a FontGenerator library font made with AI; before release its letters were read back one by one by independent automated checks. The design notes were written by AI from the specimen images and checked against them by a second, independent pass; font measurements come from the font file. Preview sizes and spacing are comparison settings.
Specimens
Specimens
Rendered from the font files, without retouching.
About
About Static Ruin Grotesk
Its lowercase sits low: the x-height is 68.9% of the cap height, where the median for decorative fonts is 74.4%, lower than 35 of the 36 other decorative fonts. Ascenders on b, d, h, k and l line up with the capitals (100% of their height), and descenders on g, j, p, q and y drop 22.4% of the cap height below the baseline, shallower than 20 of the 36 other decorative fonts. Static Ruin Grotesk runs 21.9% narrower than the median for decorative fonts: an average lowercase letter, spacing included, is 59.4% as wide as the capitals are tall (an average capital, 67.2%). The o is an upright oval, 0.76 times as wide as it is tall, and W is the widest capital, at 1.37 times the width of H. O stands exactly as tall as H and sits on the baseline, with no overshoot.
The letters stand upright, leaning less than 2.5° either way. Vertical stems measure 16% of the cap height, heavier than 16 of the 23 other decorative fonts. Ink covers 42.6% of each lowercase letter's box (its advance width by the cap height), darker than 33 of the 36 other decorative fonts. It is close to monoline, with the sides of o and O 1.14 times as thick as their tops and bottoms.
Its 345 characters include 245 Latin letters, plus 100 figures, punctuation marks and symbols; 193 of the Latin letters are accented or special forms beyond A to Z. The word space measures 27.5% of the cap height, and the blank space either side of a lowercase letter takes up 15% of its width. Spacing is adjusted with 10,920 kerning pairs, the most of all 37 decorative fonts. The tightest of them is PJ, which closes up by 19.1% of the cap height. The figures have different widths, so columns of numbers set in Static Ruin Grotesk will not line up exactly.
Measured from the version 0.1.0 font file. Comparisons are with the 376 published library fonts measured on November 8, 2026, 37 of them decorative fonts.
Static Ruin Grotesk in 12 languages
- Czech
Příliš žluťoučký kůň úpěl ďábelské ódy.
- Danish
Høj bly gom vandt fræk sexquiz på wc.
- Dutch
Pa’s wijze lynx bezag vroom het fikse aquaduct.
- German
Victor jagt zwölf Boxkämpfer quer über den großen Sylter Deich.
- Hungarian
Árvíztűrő tükörfúrógép.
- Italian
Quel vituperabile xenofobo zelante assaggia il whisky ed esclama: alleluja!
- Polish
Pchnąć w tę łódź jeża lub ośm skrzyń fig.
- Portuguese
À noite, vovô Kowalsky vê o ímã cair no pé do pinguim queixoso.
- Romanian
Înjurând pițigăiat, zoofobul comandă vexat whisky și tequila.
- Spanish
El veloz murciélago hindú comía feliz cardillo y kiwi.
- Swedish
Flygande bäckasiner söka hwila på mjuka tuvor.
- Turkish
Pijamalı hasta yağız şoföre çabucak güvendi.
Characters
Characters
Includes all 95 printable Basic Latin characters, 345 characters in total.
Verified language coverage: Afrikaans, Albanian, Basque, Bosnian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Maltese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish, Welsh, Zulu
Basic Latin · 95
- !
- "
- #
- $
- %
- &
- '
- (
- )
- *
- +
- ,
- -
- .
- /
- 0
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- :
- ;
- <
- =
- >
- ?
- @
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- X
- Y
- Z
- [
- \
- ]
- ^
- _
- `
- a
- b
- c
- d
- e
- f
- g
- h
- i
- j
- k
- l
- m
- n
- o
- p
- q
- r
- s
- t
- u
- v
- w
- x
- y
- z
- {
- |
- }
- ~
Latin letters with accents · 230
- ª
- º
- À
- Á
- Â
- Ã
- Ä
- Å
- Æ
- Ç
- È
- É
- Ê
- Ë
- Ì
- Í
- Î
- Ï
- Ð
- Ñ
- Ò
- Ó
- Ô
- Õ
- Ö
- Ø
- Ù
- Ú
- Û
- Ü
- Ý
- Þ
- ß
- à
- á
- â
- ã
- ä
- å
- æ
- ç
- è
- é
- ê
- ë
- ì
- í
- î
- ï
- ð
- ñ
- ò
- ó
- ô
- õ
- ö
- ø
- ù
- ú
- û
- ü
- ý
- þ
- ÿ
- Ā
- ā
- Ă
- ă
- Ą
- ą
- Ć
- ć
- Ċ
- ċ
- Č
- č
- Ď
- ď
- Đ
- đ
- Ē
- ē
- Ĕ
- ĕ
- Ė
- ė
- Ę
- ę
- Ě
- ě
- Ğ
- ğ
- Ġ
- ġ
- Ģ
- ģ
- Ħ
- ħ
- Ĩ
- ĩ
- Ī
- ī
- Ĭ
- ĭ
- Į
- į
- İ
- ı
- IJ
- ij
- Ķ
- ķ
- Ĺ
- ĺ
- Ļ
- ļ
- Ľ
- ľ
- Ŀ
- ŀ
- Ł
- ł
- Ń
- ń
- Ņ
- ņ
- Ň
- ň
- Ŋ
- ŋ
- Ō
- ō
- Ŏ
- ŏ
- Ő
- ő
- Œ
- œ
- Ŕ
- ŕ
- Ŗ
- ŗ
- Ř
- ř
- Ś
- ś
- Ŝ
- ŝ
- Ş
- ş
- Š
- š
- Ţ
- ţ
- Ť
- ť
- Ŧ
- ŧ
- Ũ
- ũ
- Ū
- ū
- Ŭ
- ŭ
- Ů
- ů
- Ű
- ű
- Ų
- ų
- Ŵ
- ŵ
- Ŷ
- ŷ
- Ÿ
- Ź
- ź
- Ż
- ż
- Ž
- ž
- ſ
- Ʒ
- Ǎ
- ǎ
- Ǔ
- ǔ
- Ǥ
- ǥ
- Ǧ
- ǧ
- Ǩ
- ǩ
- Ǯ
- ǯ
- Ǿ
- ǿ
- Ș
- ș
- Ț
- ț
- Ȟ
- ȟ
- ɑ
- ʒ
- Ḃ
- ḃ
- Ḋ
- ḋ
- Ḟ
- ḟ
- Ṁ
- ṁ
- Ṗ
- ṗ
- Ṡ
- ṡ
- Ṫ
- ṫ
- Ẁ
- ẁ
- Ẃ
- ẃ
- Ẅ
- ẅ
- Ẽ
- ẽ
- Ỳ
- ỳ
- Ɑ
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FAQ
Static Ruin Grotesk questions
- Can I use Static Ruin Grotesk commercially?
- Static Ruin Grotesk is part of the Pro library. Pro and Studio include it with a commercial license that continues after the plan ends; a Font Pass can pick it as one of 5 fonts for personal use.
- Which languages does Static Ruin Grotesk support?
- Static Ruin Grotesk's 345 characters include 245 Latin letters, plus 100 figures, punctuation marks and symbols; 193 of the Latin letters are accented or special forms beyond A to Z. It has all 95 printable Basic Latin characters. Verified language coverage: Afrikaans, Albanian, Basque, Bosnian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Maltese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish, Welsh, Zulu. Missing a language? Customize the font and add it in Studio.
- What is Static Ruin Grotesk good for?
- Poster: Heavy capitals and repeated edge chips give an event title a rough texture against a plain poster background. Book or album cover: Narrow letterforms and fractured outlines suit a stark album cover with room around its main title. T-shirt print: Squared feet and dense black strokes give a short shirt slogan a firm, visibly battered character. Less suited: For dense instructions or extended reading, try a plain text face and reserve the chipped lettering for short headings.
- What fonts pair well with Static Ruin Grotesk?
- Brush Roman Press (serif), Timber Slab (serif) and Terrace Join Sans (sans serif) are drawn on a different letter structure, so Static Ruin Grotesk can carry the headings while one of them sets the text. Each has its own page with a type tester for trying the pair.
- Which fonts are similar to Static Ruin Grotesk?
- In the same decorative style: Zombie Marker (33% wider, drip effect); Gothic Fraktur Split (lighter strokes, taller x-height); Decorative Art Nouveau (34% wider, lighter strokes).