Y Byd Yn Ei Le

Inside the image.

A square cover on a very dark blue-black ground. Two large monochrome photographic head-and-shoulder portraits occupy the upper half: an older-looking man on the left, facing slightly towards the right, and a younger-looking man on the right, turned slightly towards the left. Their heads sit close together, with a narrow dark gap between them; both faces are lit from the front and rendered in pale grey tones, while their hair and the edges of their shoulders recede into the dark background. The left portrait is slightly larger and lower, with the man’s head angled and his mouth open in a faint smile. The right portrait is more upright, its face turned towards the left with the lips parted. The lower edges of both images fade irregularly into the background rather than forming visible rectangular frames.

The main title, “Dylan & Neil”, stretches across the lower middle in very large pale lettering. Its tall, narrow serif letters have pronounced thick-and-thin strokes and a gently irregular, old-fashioned display appearance. The words nearly span the width of the cover and overlap the dark space below the portraits, with the ampersand nestled between the names. Behind and partly beside the title, the words “BYD YN EI LE” appear in blue capitals, set vertically near the right edge and reading upwards from bottom to top. This secondary lettering is slimmer and simpler than the title; its upper portion begins beside the right portrait and its lower portion is partly obscured by the main words. The remaining dark ground is largely unadorned, making a broad area around and below the lettering feel nearly solid. The design combines cut-out-looking photographic portraits with sharply defined typography, in a restricted palette of black-blue, grey, white and muted blue.