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.

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Makeshift Insects
collective
slug
queer
proboscis
pincer
TOP
OCTOTHORPE
tiny beings
mantis2 Mantis
yodel
TWO
topiary
assonance
drawing
BRICK
bugs
thorax
worm
angles
thief burglar bug

Individual insect substitution keywords