2026 Bay Area Printers’ Fair & Wayzgoose Souvenir Ticket

Contributed by Matt Kelsey


Source: sjprintersguild.com Photo: Matt Kelsey. Printed by Matt Kelsey at Camino Press, Saratoga, CA. License: CC BY-SA.

Letterpress printed Souvenir Ticket for the 2026 Bay Area Printers’ Fair & Wayzgoose. Printed in 2025 from vintage handset metal type, in order from top:

Caslon Bold Extended (1911)
Futura schmalhalbfett (1936)
Lilith (1930)
Figaro (1940)
Hellenic Wide (c.1954*)
Festival Titling (1952)
Gill Sans Cameo Ruled (1935)
Antique Condensed@ (pinmark from MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan, 19th century)
Ad Lib (1961)
Antique Shaded (1913)
Mistral (1953)
Plymouth (1900)

All borders are cast by Stephenson Blake, printed from new-in-box old stock fonts.

*) Note that Hellenic Wide is a 1950s adaptation of the same letter style as the 19th century Antique Extended.

This post was originally published at Fonts In Use

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