diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 99cdea0..c96a093 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
 [workspace]
 resolver = "2"
-members = ["hui", "hui-derive", "hui-examples", "hui-glium", "hui-painter", "hui-shared", "hui-wgpu", "hui-winit"]
+members = [
+  "hui",
+  "hui-derive",
+  "hui-examples",
+  "hui-glium",
+  "hui-painter-wip",
+  "hui-shared",
+  "hui-wgpu",
+  "hui-winit"
+]
diff --git a/hui-painter/Cargo.toml b/hui-painter-wip/Cargo.toml
similarity index 89%
rename from hui-painter/Cargo.toml
rename to hui-painter-wip/Cargo.toml
index 8b3d123..743d302 100644
--- a/hui-painter/Cargo.toml
+++ b/hui-painter-wip/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [package]
-name = "hui-painter"
+name = "hui-painter-wip"
 description = "UI rendering middleware for hUI, abstracts away triangulation, text layout and rendering and all the other hard stuff."
 repository = "https://github.com/griffi-gh/hui"
 readme = "../README.md"
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ rust-version = "1.75"
 version = "0.1.0-alpha.5"
 edition = "2021"
 license = "GPL-3.0-or-later"
-publish = true
+publish = false # TODO: change to true once ready
 include = [
   "src/**/*.rs",
   "Cargo.toml",
diff --git a/hui-painter/src/lib.rs b/hui-painter-wip/src/lib.rs
similarity index 100%
rename from hui-painter/src/lib.rs
rename to hui-painter-wip/src/lib.rs
diff --git a/hui-painter/src/paint.rs b/hui-painter-wip/src/paint.rs
similarity index 100%
rename from hui-painter/src/paint.rs
rename to hui-painter-wip/src/paint.rs
diff --git a/hui-painter/src/paint/buffer.rs b/hui-painter-wip/src/paint/buffer.rs
similarity index 100%
rename from hui-painter/src/paint/buffer.rs
rename to hui-painter-wip/src/paint/buffer.rs
diff --git a/hui-painter/src/paint/command.rs b/hui-painter-wip/src/paint/command.rs
similarity index 100%
rename from hui-painter/src/paint/command.rs
rename to hui-painter-wip/src/paint/command.rs
diff --git a/hui-painter/src/paint/command/list.rs b/hui-painter-wip/src/paint/command/list.rs
similarity index 100%
rename from hui-painter/src/paint/command/list.rs
rename to hui-painter-wip/src/paint/command/list.rs
diff --git a/hui-painter/src/paint/command/rectangle.rs b/hui-painter-wip/src/paint/command/rectangle.rs
similarity index 100%
rename from hui-painter/src/paint/command/rectangle.rs
rename to hui-painter-wip/src/paint/command/rectangle.rs
diff --git a/hui-painter/src/paint/command/text.rs b/hui-painter-wip/src/paint/command/text.rs
similarity index 100%
rename from hui-painter/src/paint/command/text.rs
rename to hui-painter-wip/src/paint/command/text.rs
diff --git a/hui-painter/src/paint/command/transform.rs b/hui-painter-wip/src/paint/command/transform.rs
similarity index 100%
rename from hui-painter/src/paint/command/transform.rs
rename to hui-painter-wip/src/paint/command/transform.rs
diff --git a/hui-painter/src/text.rs b/hui-painter-wip/src/text.rs
similarity index 100%
rename from hui-painter/src/text.rs
rename to hui-painter-wip/src/text.rs
diff --git a/hui-painter/src/text/font.rs b/hui-painter-wip/src/text/font.rs
similarity index 100%
rename from hui-painter/src/text/font.rs
rename to hui-painter-wip/src/text/font.rs
diff --git a/hui-painter/src/text/ftm.rs b/hui-painter-wip/src/text/ftm.rs
similarity index 100%
rename from hui-painter/src/text/ftm.rs
rename to hui-painter-wip/src/text/ftm.rs
diff --git a/hui-painter/src/texture.rs b/hui-painter-wip/src/texture.rs
similarity index 100%
rename from hui-painter/src/texture.rs
rename to hui-painter-wip/src/texture.rs
diff --git a/hui-painter/src/texture/atlas.rs b/hui-painter-wip/src/texture/atlas.rs
similarity index 100%
rename from hui-painter/src/texture/atlas.rs
rename to hui-painter-wip/src/texture/atlas.rs
diff --git a/hui-painter/src/util.rs b/hui-painter-wip/src/util.rs
similarity index 100%
rename from hui-painter/src/util.rs
rename to hui-painter-wip/src/util.rs