Yama Typeface
My original Post: 2024-11-07
A while back I was listening to some music and I noticed the Album Art for Yama’s “The Meaning of Life” and I thought the typeface was extremely curious, but was unable to find it anywhere online with a cursory search. Throughout the day I found myself doodling the letter forms as I did my work. By the end of the day I felt I had a pretty good set of all the characters, so I decided to figure out more of the proportions and try to get as close as I could with a full alphabet. This ended up being the result.
Thoughts from 9 months on…
I’m still incredibly proud of this small project. From conception to actualization it was actually on the shorter side of my projects - a couple days really - and it resulted in some really nice letterforms. Something I explored for a bit at the time but quickly gave up on was the idea to create a proper typeface out of it. That can be installed on someone’s computer. I may still do that one day, and maybe I’ll update this post for that, but for now I’m just glad to have a place to share these files for whomever may stumble upon this post and use it for whatever they wish.
I’m not sure what the license is on the original font, but all of my work is CC-BY-SA-NC 4.0.