Typewriter Hats

Typewriter collecting has its own gravity. Tom Hanks, who is reported to own about 270 machines, gave a 1935 Remington Noiseless 77 to a typewriter shop in Rolla, Missouri in April 2026, and collectors call the occasional surge in interest the Hanks Effect. The Typewriter Database lists about 1,060 brands and more than 3,300 models, so there is always another one to find. One collector's blog post is titled Why another typewriter? and answers itself: I haven't been able to find an answer yet. The same post sums up the hobby in six words: we all need just one more. Typewriter shirts and hats on the big print-on-demand sites are mostly illustrations or the bare word, so first-person collector jokes are open ground. These hats are for that person. TYPEWRITER and TYPEWRITER COLLECTOR are the plain badges. The longer designs carry the loud first draft, the typo kept as a limited edition, the floor that cannot take another machine, and the novel that waits on one more purchase. TYPEWRITER MY NEIGHBORS HAVE HEARD MY FIRST DRAFT and WHY ANOTHER TYPEWRITER? each come in a second colorway. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. Wear it to the type-in, or give one to the writer or the collector.