perhaps I should hand wrender to support this? or find a tube typeface that is bold enough to be seen high contrast against black
'The solution is to paint the tube black in the connecting sections, so that the letters appear discrete. Legibility is achieved by simply painting out parts of the letters, rather like tweaking your newly designed typeface by applying correcting fluid to the stems, serifs and ligatures.''Claude called his invention, which he was quick to patent and commercialize, a “living flame”. But in the very core of neon lighting is this idea of desire: light is created by bombarding, or exciting the molecules of a rare or noble gas. Perhaps that’s why adult boutiques and strip clubs choose neon.'- This quote explains a lot of the time the lights need handwrendered editing or hiding, which leads me to consider painting parts, or if parts in screenprint go wrong, that covering parts by painting them black can be justified as it relates to neon lights roots. Ofcourse it will look professional and needs to be wanted to be purchased by the Manchester creatives, but unique unclinical detail will not be entirely innappropriate if done right.
'The decline of neon has made it a ripe subject for a kind of cult status: the famous neon boneyard of the Young Electric Sign Company in Vegas was never an official tourist attraction but was picked over and photographed by thousands of visitors intrigued by the idea of the detritus of a fickle consumer culture. '
http://designinquiry.net/contributions/neon-typography/- this reninforces my editing technique and the way the pages are assembled, with the neon signages glorified against the black in sharp enhancement, and why the book will have fluorescent/glow in the dark/high contrast design themes.
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