Style 17, the Timeline. Round 2

Dave's notes on round 1, applied. The subway line looked like the other styles and the dots did not explain themselves; what we do is more complicated than a line with stops. So this round is five expressions of a timeline, each an object people already read without a key: a month calendar with the days marked, a dated spine, a dial, parallel lanes, a year strip. A new face, Fraunces, a soft high-contrast serif at its display size for the numerals and headlines and its text size for the copy: nothing like the grotesks, the Cormorant or the Bodoni. Every line centered. The lockup at the foot is bigger, the agent line under it as it was.

New material. None of the six job lines. Six pieces from the idea bank instead: Back to School (the timeline for moving before the bell), What This Took (from first call to keys), What This Number Actually Means (days on market is 32), Proof of Process (what happens while you wait), New Year Real Estate Planning (your 2027 timeline), and Labor Day (the fall market week by week).

What to rule on. Which of the five expressions earn a place: the calendar, the spine, the dial, the lanes, the year. The face. The centered build and the bigger lockup. Pass or note by name.

Five expressions

**TL-school**THE CALENDAR. Back to school, from the idea bank: a June with the days marked, list on the first, contract on the ninth, clear on the thirtieth.

**TL-took**THE SPINE. What this took: forty-four days from first call to keys, every stop dated down the center.

**TL-dom**THE DIAL. What this number means: days on market as a clock, the median at 32, priced right gone at 14, the overpriced past sixty.

**TL-process**THE LANES. Proof of process: four people working at once between offer and keys, each on their own track, with the days across the top.

**TL-plan**THE YEAR. New year, real plan: twelve months, the ones that matter filled in, ending with a summer move.

**TL-fall**THE SPINE again, dated: the fall market after Labor Day, six weeks that matter.