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
mosquito2 Mosquito
drawing
yodel
PIE
antennae
mosquito1 Mosquito
slug
angles
bugs
TOP
mantis2 Mantis
pincer
insect1 critters
topiary
queer
OCTOTHORPE
BRICK
millipede
tiny beings
thief burglar bug

Individual insect substitution keywords