If you needed an excuse to do the opposite of what you normally do, today is your day, because January 25th is National Opposite Day! For today, Howard letterpress printed the largest (30 line pica) and the smallest (10 line pica) wood type that we have in our print shop exhibit at the Sacramento History Museum of the French Clarendon typeface. There are definitely smaller and larger fonts than this in existence, but this is what we have at our museum (we obviously have a lot smaller lead type i

The NBA basketball season is underway and we here at the Sacramento History Museum are, of course, rooting for the home team! It has been a rough season so far but Alex letterpress printed something for the @Sacramento Kings who are on a 3 game win streak! We had to get out some large wood type that was made in the late 1880s by the Hamilton Wood Type Company for this occasion. The typeface is French Clarendon. The text reads “GO KINGS LIGHT THE BEAM!” The beam appears over the Golden 1 Center w