Ostia Antica
Bureau Brut · Yoann Minet, Hugo Anglade · 2015
A deliberately discordant grotesque by Yoann Minet, with independently drawn capitals and lowercases and a radical 35-degree italic, originally made for a Pasolini exhibition catalogue.
About
Originally drawn in collaboration with Spassky Fischer for a 2013 Cinémathèque française exhibition on Pasolini, the family pairs Johnston-proportioned monumental capitals with exaggerated 19th-century grotesque lowercases that have no logical structural continuity between them. Three weights, each individually drawn without linear interpolation, give the family a deliberately uneven typographic colour. The italic's 35-degree slant, far beyond the conventional 10-degree convention for sans-serifs, creates a distinct type colour treated as a material in its own right rather than a stylistic variation.
Classification
A sans-serif grotesque drawing on 19th-century accidental grotesques for the lowercase and Johnston-derived Roman capitals, with an extreme 35-degree italic slant that sets it apart from conventional sans-serif construction.