In Case of Emergency Break Into Song!

I conjured these cards in 2018, inspired by having had a print shop inside The Guild (a local arts centre and performance hall). Every spring the musical Anne and Gilbert would enter rehearsal and song would fill the halls. When I moved out of The Guild, and took my press down the street to its current home in the Parish Hall basement, I found it near-silent (at least when the violin teacher next door isn’t teaching), but these remain solid words to live by.

The typeface is 36 pt. Tourist Gothic, acquired from Letterpress Things three years ago. It’s got some funky alternate capitals, and I used the alternate E and the S here; I love them for their weirdness.

The paper is from an inexpensive pad of Japanese note paper that I bought in Toronto many years ago. The ink is an old can of Flame Red that a local print shop kindly donated to me.