Letterpress & Printmaking Hats

English is full of idioms that began at the type case. Mental Floss traces "out of sorts" to the sort, a single piece of type: run out of one and you are literally out of sorts. Uppercase and lowercase got their names from the cases where capitals sat above the rest. "Mind your p's and q's" is usually tied to those two lowercase letters looking alike in type, though the exact origin is unknown. "Make an impression" comes from the Latin imprimere, to press into or upon, which is exactly what a letterpress does. These letterpress and printmaker hats treat that shop talk as everyday speech. Two badges carry the head terms, LETTERPRESS and PRINTMAKER. The sentence designs go after the idioms, the Gutenberg legend, the habit of reading type upside down and backwards, and the scale of the machine: listings put a Vandercook Universal I at about 1,950 pounds, a lot of iron for a thank you card. Printmaking and type tees already circulate on Boxcar Press, TeePublic and Redbubble, including Gutenberg press hats, so the crowd is real and used to wearing its trade. This page is for the printer who owns the press, and for the friend who has to help move it. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat.