Bureau Brut is a French type foundry based in Toulouse. We create unique and exclusive typefaces, reflecting our taste and expertise.
For us, a typeface left unused is only a relatively organized sign collection: it is the way you use it that gives it its purpose.
Consequently, we care about our users, and strive to meet their needs.
🡢 Our license system is simple and adapts itself to you. The only indicators to have in mind are the client’s company size and the type of media on which you’ll use the typeface.
🡢 Our typefaces offer a large character set with numerous figures, small capitals, superscripts or letters enclosed in graphic shapes.
🡢 Our artistic direction strikes a balance between legibility and visibility. We design our typefaces so they can be used in a wide range of contexts. Even our most radical creations stay sturdy in small sizes and stay legible.
In short, we design body-sized text fonts with display size principles or display fonts following body-sized text font principles.
Fonts are not just tools
For us, a typeface is more than a computer file: each family tells a singular story. Some of them are deeply rooted in history; others are the outcome of graphic and experimental research. Despite their differences, they are bound by a strict and meticulous process of typography, by the same vision and gesture. Each typeface of our catalog is designed by, or with Yoann Minet.
They are cultural works.
We continue creating fonts because they reflect our culture and the way we want to shape it. With the ever-increasing presence of artificial intelligence in the artistic world, we believe it is more important now than ever to defend the pleasure of creating and using human-made creations. William Morris defended art and crafts against industrialization. We are then making his words ours, in the conclusion of The Art of the People:1
- Lecture given by William Morris at the Birmingham Society of Arts and School of Design, on February 19, 1879.
Made by the people and for the people,
as a happiness to the maker and the user.