Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 January 2016
We study tangent sets of strictly self-affine sets in the plane. If a set in this class satisfies the strong separation condition and projects to a line segment for sufficiently many directions, then for each generic point there exists a rotation ${\mathcal{O}}$ such that all tangent sets at that point are either of the form ${\mathcal{O}}((\mathbb{R}\times C)\cap B(0,1))$, where $C$ is a closed porous set, or of the form ${\mathcal{O}}((\ell \times \{0\})\cap B(0,1))$, where $\ell$ is an interval.