Herald is for sites that want the first viewport to feel like a magazine cover — a dark masthead, a full-bleed hero, then a wide feed of excerpts with optional cover thumbnails and author lines.
That mood comes from Ghost Casper without being a pixel-perfect port: bold headlines, generous whitespace, and chrome that stays out of the way so photography and titles can carry the page.
None of that requires Ghost. Herald implements the pattern as a Dune-native theme with the usual templates, search, archives, and config panel.