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
proboscis
thief burglar bug
mantis2 Mantis
thorax
assonance
topiary
mosquito2 Mosquito
tiny beings
pincer
collective
bugs
angles
millipede
mosquito1 Mosquito
queer
worm
butterfly2 butterfly
yodel
antennae
drawing
Individual insect substitution keywords
beetle1beetle2beetle3beetle4beetle5beetle6spider1spider2spider3spider4insect1insect2insect3insect4ant1butterfly1butterfly2caterpillar1caterpillar2caterpillar3mantis1mantis2dragonfly1dragonfly2mosquito1mosquito2moth1bee1worm1thief