The mark consists of the words "YMI YOUNG MUSICIAN INITIATIVE" in stylized red characters. The letters "YMI" appear in lowercase letters above and larger than the words "YOUNG MUSICIAN INITIATIVE". The first letters in each of the words "YOUNG MUSICIAN INITIATIVE" appear in uppercase letters and the rest of the letters in the words appear in lowercase letters. There are four arches of dots of four different sizes and six different colors, with the colors in the dots filled in imperfectly as if colored by a child. From left to right the outermost arch, with the largest circles, are filled in yellow, orange, green, blue, purple, red, yellow, blue, and green. From left to right the second arch, with the second largest circles, are filled in green, blue, yellow, purple, red, blue, green, orange, and red. From left to right the third arch, with the second smallest circles, are filled in orange, purple, blue, red, blue, green, orange, yellow, and purple. From left to right the innermost arch, with the smallest circles, are filled with red, yellow, green, purple, orange, red, blue, red, and yellow.