New York composer Miriam Daly wrote and recorded music for fonts. The songs are a Courier for Impact-ful melodies that are definitely worth your Time(s New Roman).
New York composer Miriam Daly pondered the question “What would a font sound like? ” Then she wrote and recorded a bunch of theme music for her favorites.
The unique qualities of the fonts we read every day are rarely appreciated. Composer Miriam Daly wanted to change that, so she wrote and recorded theme songs for a bunch of fonts — and they’re fantastic.
“I had opened up the Font Book on my computer a while back and was stunned to see how many fonts I had, and how some of them had such distinct personalities,” says Daly, who lives in New York.
Miriam Daly finally gave fonts their due by composing music for them.
She then set out to write music choosing styles and instrumentation that reflected the unique identity of each font.
“I would have the font displayed on my computer screen, and then start sketching out the music, seeing if I liked how the sounds I was creating matched the character of the font,” says Daly.
