Makeshift Insects is a collaboratively drawn typeface constructed from insects. In an online workshop with Arts House, artists and mentors from the Makeshift Publics program were invited to create a strange typeface in two stages:
- We each drew a small insect
- We collaboratively constructed an alphabet using our insects as building blocks
The typeface also contains individual insects (implemented via a contextual alternates feature) which are automatically substituted when their code names are typed.
Makeshift Insects is free and open source.
Makeshift Insects
TOP
butterfly2 butterfly
insect1 critters
BRICK
millipede
spider3 spiders
PIE
proboscis
mosquito2 Mosquito
thief burglar bug
drawing
tiny beings
collective
queer
angles
pincer
mantis2 Mantis
TWO
thorax
bugs


Individual insect substitution keywords
beetle1
beetle2
beetle3
beetle4
beetle5
beetle6
spider1
spider2
spider3
spider4
insect1
insect2
insect3
insect4
ant1
butterfly1
butterfly2
caterpillar1
caterpillar2
caterpillar3
mantis1
mantis2
dragonfly1
dragonfly2
mosquito1
mosquito2
moth1
bee1
worm1
thief