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Re: The Mystery of the Dune Font

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Post by jjtheblunt »

an1sotropy wrote: post #54
dylan604 wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Didn't Sun computers run Irix? Is Irix Unix?

Suns ran Solaris, of course.

SunOS was BSD-ish originally, then around 1994 they shifted to a more SVR4 variant and rebranded to Solaris. I think Solaris 2.x was SVR4 and Solaris 1.x was BSD retronaming of what was SunOS named earlier.

It's been a while so I may not have the numbers quite right.

Anyway, there was some overlap in nomenclature, so a version bump of the SunOS naming (and Solaris numbering) implied a shift from BSD-ish to SVR4-ish, as I recall.

(And I worked for Sun for a while after that, and used Suns a ton around the shift)

Re: The Mystery of the Dune Font

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Post by toast0 »

latch wrote: post #8
mathieuh wrote: post #5

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I've read the Frank Herbert Dune books back-to-back several times and love them all, but I've never tried his son's additions to the series because I've read a few people saying they're not worth the time. Do you agree?

I'm not the parent, but I've also read all the original 6 books a great number of times, as well as about 7 or 8 of the B. Herbert/K. Anderson Dune books, and I'd say they aren't worth it. They largely explain things that, as far as I'm concerned, didn't need explaining. As you probably know, they wrote a 2 book conclusion to the series. These 2 books largely tie the Frank Herbert Dune universe with the B. Herbert/K.…

It's interesting (and perhaps accurate) that you critique the use of lazy themes in backstory, but praise the effortlessness of leaving the backstory out. (I've not read the new stuff myself)

Re: The Mystery of the Dune Font

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Post by b112 »

landhar wrote: post #25
esrauch wrote: post #19

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I'm old enough to have mainly used cursive in school and I definitely had the thought that it seemed like a vaguely arabic-inspired cursive when I saw it the flourishes on the D.

The flourishes in the D of that cover are exactly how I was taught to write the uppercase D in cursive at school. I remember (as a kid) thinking it was odd that to write a `D` one had to start by writing an `I`, but never questioned it. But from looking at examples of cursive on google images, it seems like that form is no longer as prominent.

The flourishes in the D of that cover are exactly how I was taught to write the uppercase D in cursive at school.

We've now established that you went to school in Arab, and this is why you wrote D in Arabic, for at no point did you counter this logic.

(I am using chatgpt reasoning here)

Re: The Mystery of the Dune Font

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Post by [deleted] »

runevault wrote: post #53
dvh wrote: post #3

I have nothing to add to the font aspect but here's fellow HNer's advice how to approach these books: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20859569

I'm someone who stopped after God Emperor because I was under the impression the next books were an arc and it stops in a weird place if you end where Herbert did because of his passing. It was interesting because I struggled with Dune, made it to the time skip, and stopped. Then the recent movie came out, I decided to read the rest, enjoyed it far more, and kept going. Blasted through Messiah through God Emperor pre…

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Re: The Mystery of the Dune Font

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Post by edaemon »

MalcolmDwyer wrote: post #39
Semaphor wrote: post #11

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> Just the four letters D U N E, which are exactly the same shape but rotated 90 degrees. It's an incredibly simple and effective design. For those interested: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/P/B08HPFCMLS.01._SCLZZZZZZ...

Some Unicode variants: ᑐ ᑌ ᑎ ᑕ ᑐ ᑌ ᑎ ᕮ ⊃ ∪ ∩ ⊂ Edit to add one more... ⋻ ⋃ ⋂ ⋳

I imagine most people are aware but the second variant you have there is essentially what was used for the most recent movie: http://www.impawards.com/2021/posters/dune_ver16_xlg.jpg

Re: The Mystery of the Dune Font

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Post by djur »

edaemon wrote: post #65
MalcolmDwyer wrote: post #39

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Some Unicode variants: ᑐ ᑌ ᑎ ᑕ ᑐ ᑌ ᑎ ᕮ ⊃ ∪ ∩ ⊂ Edit to add one more... ⋻ ⋃ ⋂ ⋳

I imagine most people are aware but the second variant you have there is essentially what was used for the most recent movie: http://www.impawards.com/2021/posters/dune_ver16_xlg.jpg

There were a lot of "DUNC" jokes about the poster, like that the main character was named "Dunc". (Real Dune heads may have some "well, actually" thoughts about that.)

Re: The Mystery of the Dune Font

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Post by yellowapple »

djur wrote: post #66
edaemon wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I imagine most people are aware but the second variant you have there is essentially what was used for the most recent movie: http://www.impawards.com/2021/posters/dune_ver16_xlg.jpg

There were a lot of "DUNC" jokes about the poster, like that the main character was named "Dunc". (Real Dune heads may have some "well, actually" thoughts about that.)

I reckon Dune fans find all sorts of deeper meaning in the hit B-52s song "Private Idaho".

Re: The Mystery of the Dune Font

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Post by andrewla »

latch wrote: post #8
mathieuh wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've read the Frank Herbert Dune books back-to-back several times and love them all, but I've never tried his son's additions to the series because I've read a few people saying they're not worth the time. Do you agree?

I'm not the parent, but I've also read all the original 6 books a great number of times, as well as about 7 or 8 of the B. Herbert/K. Anderson Dune books, and I'd say they aren't worth it. They largely explain things that, as far as I'm concerned, didn't need explaining. As you probably know, they wrote a 2 book conclusion to the series. These 2 books largely tie the Frank Herbert Dune universe with the B. Herbert/K.…

I loved Dune, and while I don't think all the original sequels were as strong, I enjoyed them all and have reread them several times over the years.

I slogged my way through the first couple of his son's work, but I read the first page of Butlerian Jihad and, for the first time in my life, threw the book against the wall and tossed it in the garbage.

    Inside his pyramid-shaped vessel, the cymek general
    Agamemnon led the attack. Logical thinking machines
    did not care about glory or revenge. But Agamemnon
    certainly did. Fully alert inside his preservation
    cannister, his human brain watched the plans unfold.
If you're a fan of Dune and made it all the way through this paragraph without feeling ill, then you're a stronger person than I.

Re: The Mystery of the Dune Font

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Post by pklausler »

I always enjoy seeing the "Dune" font in unexpected places, such as the logo of the Washington Square Mall in the western burbs of Portland (OR), and wonder whether there's a Herbert fan somewhere with a sense of accomplishment for having used it.
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