diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index ee3eb0aa82f..c4132099110 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ GridLayoutBase = "3955a311-db13-416c-9275-1d80ed98e5e9"
 ImageIO = "82e4d734-157c-48bb-816b-45c225c6df19"
 InteractiveUtils = "b77e0a4c-d291-57a0-90e8-8db25a27a240"
 IntervalSets = "8197267c-284f-5f27-9208-e0e47529a953"
+InverseFunctions = "3587e190-3f89-42d0-90ee-14403ec27112"
 Isoband = "f1662d9f-8043-43de-a69a-05efc1cc6ff4"
 KernelDensity = "5ab0869b-81aa-558d-bb23-cbf5423bbe9b"
 LaTeXStrings = "b964fa9f-0449-5b57-a5c2-d3ea65f4040f"
diff --git a/src/Makie.jl b/src/Makie.jl
index 2a1545280ca..6d6a6452068 100644
--- a/src/Makie.jl
+++ b/src/Makie.jl
@@ -80,6 +80,8 @@ using Base.Iterators: repeated, drop
 import Base: getindex, setindex!, push!, append!, parent, get, get!, delete!, haskey
 using Observables: listeners, to_value, notify
 
+import InverseFunctions
+
 using MakieCore: SceneLike, MakieScreen, ScenePlot, AbstractScene, AbstractPlot, Transformable, Attributes, Plot, Theme, Plot
 using MakieCore: Arrows, Heatmap, Image, Lines, LineSegments, Mesh, MeshScatter, Poly, Scatter, Surface, Text, Volume, Wireframe
 using MakieCore: ConversionTrait, NoConversion, PointBased, GridBased, VertexGrid, CellGrid, ImageLike, VolumeLike
diff --git a/src/layouting/transformation.jl b/src/layouting/transformation.jl
index e4b96dbabb8..9aa2f8b9534 100644
--- a/src/layouting/transformation.jl
+++ b/src/layouting/transformation.jl
@@ -417,15 +417,12 @@ function Symlog10(lo, hi)
     return ReversibleScale(forward, inverse; limits=(0.0f0, 3.0f0), name=:Symlog10)
 end
 
-inverse_transform(::typeof(identity)) = identity
-inverse_transform(::typeof(log10)) = exp10
-inverse_transform(::typeof(log2)) = exp2
-inverse_transform(::typeof(log)) = exp
-inverse_transform(::typeof(sqrt)) = x -> x ^ 2
+function inverse_transform(f)
+    f⁻¹ = InverseFunctions.inverse(f)
+    return f⁻¹ isa InverseFunctions.NoInverse ? nothing : f⁻¹  # nothing is for backwards compatibility
+end
 inverse_transform(F::Tuple) = map(inverse_transform, F)
-inverse_transform(::typeof(logit)) = logistic
 inverse_transform(s::ReversibleScale) = s.inverse
-inverse_transform(::Any) = nothing
 
 function is_identity_transform(t)
     return t === identity || t isa Tuple && all(x-> x === identity, t)
diff --git a/test/makielayout.jl b/test/makielayout.jl
index bff143e1c89..6030c5a0dac 100644
--- a/test/makielayout.jl
+++ b/test/makielayout.jl
@@ -467,6 +467,7 @@ end
 @testset "ReversibleScale" begin
     @test ReversibleScale(identity).inverse === identity
     @test ReversibleScale(log).inverse === exp
+    @test ReversibleScale(cbrt).inverse(2) == 8
     @test_throws ArgumentError ReversibleScale(x -> log10(x))  # missing inverse scale
     @test_throws ArgumentError ReversibleScale(sqrt, exp10)  # incorrect inverse scale
 end