An all-caps face shown in Photo-Lettering’s 1967 Alphabet
Yearbook (1967) and in the One Line catalog
(1971) in three variants; Davison Art Nouveau with
Flourishes, Modified, and Ornate.
The sample combines the Flourishes (“Davison”) and
Ornate (“Art Nouveau”) styles. Comes with
alternates.
Best known for its
use for Dune and other books by Frank Herbert.
In 2009, a Dune aficionado who goes by the moniker
DuneFish (DFUK) and/or MEP made a digital font called
Orthodox Herbertarian, “painstakingly traced from
scans of the typeface that was used on the American Ace editions
[…] of Dune and many other Frank Herbert books”.
This amateur digitization is freely available at
kullwahad.com. The font is
caps only (A–Z), with a basic set of punctuation characters and
scaled-down caps in the More…
An all-caps face shown in Photo-Lettering’s 1967 Alphabet Yearbook (1967) and in the One Line catalog (1971) in three variants; Davison Art Nouveau with Flourishes, Modified, and Ornate. The sample combines the Flourishes (“Davison”) and Ornate (“Art Nouveau”) styles. Comes with alternates.
Best known for its use for Dune and other books by Frank Herbert.
In 2009, a Dune aficionado who goes by the moniker DuneFish (DFUK) and/or MEP made a digital font called Orthodox Herbertarian, “painstakingly traced from scans of the typeface that was used on the American Ace editions […] of Dune and many other Frank Herbert books”. This amateur digitization is freely available at kullwahad.com. The font is caps only (A–Z), with a basic set of punctuation characters and scaled-down caps in the lowercase, but no alternates or numerals. Because it’s based on the book covers (as opposed to the original typeface), it naturally adopts the narrowed proportions.
In 2023, Quinn Davis made Sandana, a revival and expansion based on limited specimens and in-use examples, with many swash alternates and an added lowercase.
