Bourrasque
Bureau Brut · Yoann Minet · 2018
A three-style display family by Yoann Minet built around a 45° slant, using a hybrid italic-rotalic technique where individual strokes tilt independently along a shared baseline.
About
Designed in 2014 and published by Bureau Brut in 2018, Bourrasque extends earlier research into extreme angles begun with Ostia Antica, itself already slanted at 35°. The family comprises three styles: a Regular and two 45° variants named Ouest and Est for their opposing directions of lean. Rather than rotating each glyph as a whole, every stroke is slanted independently while remaining anchored to the baseline, producing a kinetic visual energy that gives the family its name, a French word for a sudden gust of wind.
Classification
Bourrasque is a display typeface built around an extreme 45° slant, combining italic and rotalic principles where each stroke tilts independently rather than the whole glyph rotating. Its radical angle and conceptual underpinning place it firmly in the experimental display category.