2026 Bay Area Printers’ Fair & Wayzgoose Souvenir Ticket
Contributed by Matt Kelsey
on Mar 22nd, 2026. Artwork published in
circa October 2025
.
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.
