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
antennae
spider3 spiders
BRICK
assonance
butterfly2 butterfly
queer
TWO
TOP
yodel
proboscis
pincer
PIE
drawing
slug
mantis2 Mantis
worm
mosquito1 Mosquito
thorax
topiary
bugs

Individual insect substitution keywords