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Wood type is made in those sizes that are difficult to produce by typecasting. Although there are wood type faces of 72 point (one inch) and smaller, they are unusual as the benefits are minimal.

The common uses for wood type and other large letters include posters (newspaper posters, movie posters) and headlines on news sheets.

This fount is described as 18-line sans light ultra condensed. Note that the size is measured not in points but in lines. The line size is the measurement in picas (pica ems). Eighteen lines, 18 picas, is very close to three inches (76 mm).

The Museum has "some dozens" of founts of wood type, in sizes ranging from 4-line to 72-line (one foot high). No doubt someone has smaller or larger! Not all founts are complete, unfortunately. This one has none of letter S.

Wood type are stored in typecases with rungs instead of divisions, or in galleys as in this instance.