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
mosquito2 Mosquito
drawing
yodel
PIE
antennae
mosquito1 Mosquito
slug
angles
bugs
TOP
mantis2 Mantis
pincer
insect1 critters
topiary
queer
OCTOTHORPE
BRICK
millipede
tiny beings
thief burglar bug


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