Tatsuro Yamashita – For You album art
This is the LP version of Tatsuro Yamashita’s album For You, released in 1982 by Air Records. The album title uses a light weight version of Glaser Stencil and the artist’s name uses tracked-out caps from Gill Sans Bold Condensed. The catalog number at the upper right portion uses Futura.
At the back cover, most of the text is written in demi-bold and bold weights of Helvetica. The text at the middle of the postcard most likely uses a light weight version of Futura. The text at the right portion of the postcard is set in Courier. At the lower portion of the back cover, the Japanese serif text uses Ishii Mincho by Shaken (写研), the weight of the font is unidentified. Lastly, the words “1982” and “RAT-8801” are in Univers Bold.
On the insert, the song titles and track duration for each side along with the production staff at the backside are rendered in an italic variant of Univers of varying weights. The English song titles use Gothic No.1B (ゴシックNo.1B) and the Japanese lyrics most likely uses a medium weight of Ishii Gothic called Ishii Chū Futo Gothic (石井中太ゴシック), both by Shaken. To add this, musician credits underneath each song’s lyrics are in Gothic No.2 (ゴシックNo.2) which is an English-only alphabet also made by Shaken.
Design by Hiroshi Takahara featuring an illustration by Eizin Suzuki.
