Ffrindiau Ryan

Inside the image.

A square cover pairs a tightly cropped black-and-white portrait with a compact block of lettering in the upper right. The smiling man’s face fills most of the left half and extends into the centre: his head is tipped slightly back, his eyes look up and towards the left edge, and his open mouth shows his teeth. The crop cuts off the top of his head and much of his neck and shoulder. Strong light picks out his forehead, cheek, nose and chin, while deep shadows define the far side of his face and merge with the nearly black background. A dark, ribbed-looking garment occupies the lower-right corner, its folds only faintly visible.

The portrait has a grainy monochrome photographic appearance, with bright silver-grey skin against black. The face is close and expansive, while the right side leaves a broad field of dark negative space for the text. There is no visible border. The image’s tonal range moves from the pale face through mid-grey detail to near-black around the head and across the background.

Near the top right, small, widely spaced pale teal capitals read “FFRINDIAU”. Directly below, “Ryan” appears much larger, in a light blue-green. The name is set in a thin, clean sans-serif style, with a capital R and lowercase letters; its final letters sit close to the right edge. Under it, two smaller lines read “Ryan Davies” in a pale green-blue and “ac artistiaid eraill” in a lighter, narrower style. A final, very small line beneath reads “THE DOUBLE-DIAMOND COLLECTION”, with “DOUBLE-DIAMOND” appearing brighter and bolder than the surrounding words. The lettering is right of the face and clearly separated from it by the dark background, though the large title reaches towards the portrait’s temple.