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
bugs
millipede
drawing
PIE
angles
collective
mosquito2 Mosquito
TWO
pincer
proboscis
yodel
antennae
assonance
thief burglar bug
worm
queer
topiary
spider3 spiders
butterfly2 butterfly
OCTOTHORPE
Individual insect substitution keywords
beetle1beetle2beetle3beetle4beetle5beetle6spider1spider2spider3spider4insect1insect2insect3insect4ant1butterfly1butterfly2caterpillar1caterpillar2caterpillar3mantis1mantis2dragonfly1dragonfly2mosquito1mosquito2moth1bee1worm1thief