Dune (1984) titles
Albertus finds itself in another sci-fi cult classic. The opening credit is done in golden 3D lettering, with some modification to the letterform: U has no bottom-right stem, R tail is longer than usual, ampersand uses the alternate form, and J is a non-descending alternate which was originally a standard variant when the typeface was released. According to the ending credits, Robert Schaefer and the company called Title House are responsible for the work.
After the opening exposition and credit, the second exposition starts (this film has a lot of background exposition, which is still not enough to fully make sense of itself, and often the main point of its criticism). The planet names are typeset in ITC Avant Garde Gothic.
Small caps are simply scaled caps with no weight adjustment.
The ending credit is set in Helvetica.
2 Comments on “Dune (1984) titles”
I always thought it was cool how the title first appears in the movie, with the letters starting out small and growing larger without changing their position. It’s almost like that dolly zoom effect that Hitchcock used in Vertigo.
For those not familiar with the opening titles, you can watch the intro on YouTube. The animation described by Mark appears two minutes into the clip.