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