Caneuon Rhys Jones

Inside the image.

A square album cover combines a close photographic portrait with large Welsh lettering. An older man with short white hair, thin metal-framed glasses and a black collared shirt fills most of the left half. He faces the viewer, smiling slightly with his mouth open. His head is near the top edge, and the crop cuts off his shoulders and torso at the bottom and left edges. Soft, even light falls across his face; the dark shirt provides a strong contrast with the pale skin and hair.

Behind him is a softly blended sky in lavender, blue and rose-pink, with a brighter band of pink near the horizon. The portrait overlaps this background, while the typography occupies the open space on the right. The large title is arranged in several lines: a small, narrow uppercase word sits above the much larger name, whose white first line and deep blue-purple second line stand out against the sky. Beneath it, a column of smaller white uppercase song titles runs down the right side. A short line of light-blue text sits along the bottom, over the dark shirt and lower background. The cover has no visible border.

The design is photographic with a digitally composed appearance: the portrait and sky are combined with layered type. The title lettering has pronounced serifs and contrasting thick and thin strokes; the smaller list is set in compact uppercase letters. Some of the smallest lettering is difficult to make out at this scale.