Dennis Grauel ‣ Makeshift Insects
Wurundjeri Country

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.

Github Repository ↗
Makeshift Insects
PIE
spider3 spiders
thief burglar bug
yodel
antennae
slug
OCTOTHORPE
worm
thorax
butterfly2 butterfly
drawing
millipede
tiny beings
assonance
proboscis
bugs
mantis2 Mantis
TWO
pincer
mosquito2 Mosquito

Individual insect substitution keywords