Facets of Comedy by Walter Sorell
Contributed by Florian Hardwig on Mar 9th, 2024. Artwork published in
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Dust jacket of the hardback edition. The secondary typeface looks like some bold variant of Times New Roman.
Walter Sorell’s “exploration of the elements of humor as expressed through comedy, satire, and farce from Aristophanes to Ionesco, from Menander to S.N. Behrman” was published by Grosset & Dunlap in 1972. The swashy display typeface is Davison Art Nouveau, which in 1975 became “the Dune font”.
Cover of the paperback edition. Here, the small text is set in a different typeface, Caslon 3.
4 Comments on “Facets of Comedy by Walter Sorell”
OH MY GOD AN ACTUAL DESCENDING S FOR DAVISON. The one in Sandana was ad libbed, so I’ll add this asap.
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Isn’t that the same glyph previously featured in Slang?
…Huh. Guess I didn’t notice.
Hey! That IS a new 'B’ though! I had guessed when I made DAVeau that there might be a version of B with the curl at the top like the Dune D, mostly because of the Tijuana Brass album cover. It features several B’s with the curl at the bottom… like the letters O and D which are flipped upsidedown in Art Nouveau. But I didnt guess that it would also include the downward curl in the central bar! Neat!