Riteblock, a blocky display font by Ritesh Nayak

01 — Story

It started with a pile of blocks.

Riteblock wasn't planned. It came out of one bored evening, in Ritesh's words below.

01 · Blocks
“One random evening I was bored, so I started playing around with blocks, just arranging them with no plan.”
02 · A letter
“Somewhere in the arranging, they turned into a letter.”
03 · A font
“Then I thought, why not make a whole font system out of it? That's how Riteblock was born.”

Made for brands that like to be loud.

“Since it's blocky, I always saw it on loud branding, on technical and structural brands, and on loud food: pizzas, mustards, chillies and whatnot.”

LOUD
Loud branding
Labels, gigs and campaigns that would rather shout than whisper.
BUILT
Technical and structural
Engineering, architecture and construction. The letters already look bolted together.
PIZZA
MUSTARD
CHILLI
Loud food
Pizza boxes, mustard jars, chilli sauce. Anything with a kick.

02 — Type tester

Type your own words.

Lowercase types as caps, so you can't get it wrong.

Size120px

MAKE IT LOUD

03 — Glyphs

82 glyphs, every one a stack of rectangles.

Pick one to see how it's built. Every edge sits on the same grid: an 80px block, a 24px bar and a 16px slot, inside a letter 240 wide and 160 tall.

Letters (26)

Figures (10)

Punctuation (18)

Brackets and slashes (9)

Symbols (14)

Currency (3)

04 — Colours

Four pairings it was drawn with.

A dark ground with one bright colour suits it best. Click a colour to copy it.

LATE

Maroon / Coral

SOFT

Rose / Peach

LOUD

Brick / White

PLAY

Forest / Lime

05 — In use

Where it belongs.

Anywhere the words are few and need to be seen from across the street. Every mockup below is Ritesh's own, set in Riteblock.

Building with a rose-coloured wall: BLOC set small at the top and MAKE SPACE MATTER stacked large in peach Riteblock, beside a concrete lamp hanging off the facade. — 01 Murals and posters. Three stacked words carry the whole wall.

Three magazines fanned out on a concrete slab, each with CREATE in black Riteblock under a blue halftone drawing of a laptop and headphones. — 02 Magazine covers. One word holds its own under a busy illustration.

Folded dark green T-shirt on green, printed with A&D in lime Riteblock above EST 2026, with large faded letters cropped at its edges. — 03 Merch. It survives screen printing because there are no fine curves to lose.

Open matchbox on maroon: FIRE split over two lines in coral Riteblock above an illustrated burning match. — 04 Packaging. A matchbox where the word is as loud as the flame.

Takeaway soda cup with a domed lid and straw, printed with SODA split over two lines in black Riteblock on orange. — 05 Takeaway cups. Two letters a line and it still reads at a glance.

32PX+
It's a display face. Use it for headlines, logos and signs, and pair it with a plain sans for reading text.
0.8
Line height is 0.8, built into the font. It leaves about one bar's width between stacked lines, so the words read as one block.
A=a
There's one case. Lowercase types as caps, so pasted text works without retyping.
1+1
One dark ground and one bright colour. More than two colours fights the shapes.

06 — Download

GET IT.

Free for personal use. Tell us who you are and we'll email you the link.

.ttf for apps
.woff2 for websites
LICENSE.txt

Licence

Yes
Personal projects: school work, your own posters and posts, mockups and experiments.
Ask
Anything that earns money: client work, products, merch, ads. Email Ritesh.
No
Selling or sharing the font files themselves.

How to install

Mac: unzip, double-click the .ttf, then Install Font.
Windows: unzip, right-click the .ttf, then Install.
Web: add the .woff2 to your site, load it, then use it:

@font-face {
  font-family: "Riteblock";
  src: url("Riteblock-Regular.woff2") format("woff2");
  font-display: swap;
}

h1 {
  font-family: "Riteblock", sans-serif;
}