Design notes
- Let the tube be the warmest object in the room.
- Use walnut, aluminum, brass, paper, stone, or smoked glass before plastic.
- Treat underglow as atmosphere, not decoration.
- Keep readable numerals more important than novelty dial art.
Field topics
Walnut, aluminum, acrylic.
Case materials and why a Nixie clock with a plastic chassis never feels right in the hand.
Exposed vs. embedded tubes.
Two opposing schools of presentation — the tube as jewel on display vs. the tube framed inside architecture.
Undercloud lighting.
Warm-biased RGB glow turns an object-you-glance-at into an object-you-orbit-around.
Numeral typefaces.
Burroughs B-7971, Soviet IN-18, modern flipboard-style redraws. A tour of how each generation drew a 3.