Style 19, the Neon. Round 1

The register changes to light. A neon sign at night, photographed. The plates are real surfaces generated for the purpose: a brick wall at night, a dark storefront window, a painted wood wall inside a bar. The words are lit tubes, a bright core with the color bleeding out of it in layers, and the same color thrown back onto the wall as a halo. A neon sign says two or three words, so each card is a big word in Tilt Neon, a monoline face drawn for tubes, and a short line in Mr Dafoe, the monoline script every diner sign uses. The agent is the white vinyl under the sign, the lockup large: a decal on the glass, painted on the brick. The colors are neon colors, red, amber, teal, pink, blue and warm white, not the palette; a tube cannot be navy.

Material from the idea bank, the short kind a sign can say: Open House, Just Listed, Recruiting, Just Sold, Home for the Holidays, New Year. Nothing from the six job lines.

What to rule on. Whether the tubes read as real neon, and whether the glow on the wall is right or too much. The three walls. The colors. The vinyl as the agent block. Pass or note by name.

Six signs, three walls

**NE-open**OPEN in red, the script in warm white under it: house, Saturday 1 to 3. The brick wall.

**NE-listed**JUST LISTED in teal, come see it.

**NE-hiring**WE’RE HIRING in amber: thinking about real estate? The recruiting sign.

**NE-holiday**HOME in warm white, for the holidays in red.

**NE-newyear**NEW YEAR in teal, new address in pink.

**NE-window**Just listed in pink, in a dark storefront window, the vinyl on the glass.

**NE-window-sold**Sold in blue, in the window.

**NE-wood**We’re hiring on the painted wood wall inside.