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Hi Jill, this one took a bit of researching. It appears to be a rare font named Rapid, which is a take on the Perpetua font but with thicker serifs and some other changes.
Hi Eric, the font in Cochran’s software is a version of a print industry font called Latin 725, which is commercially available. There are also versions available under the names Frutiger Serif, and Meridien.
This is a Gerber version of Times New Roman which is more condensed and slightly bolder than normal. Unfortunately, there are no known versions of it outside of Gerber.
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Hello, this is a font in Gerber called Lectura Bold. Two similar fonts available commercially are named Leighton, and Leiden, which are both based on a pre-digital font named Lectura.
Hi Randy, this is a font in Gerber named “Helvetica Med Comp Acct AK Rev B”, which is a lighter version of Helvetica Inserat. “Inserat” is a style of font made for advertisements, which is what the word means in German, and there is a whole class of similar fonts containing this same open 4.
Hi Aubrey, this is something I’ve never run into before and is likely custom with the serifs added by hand. I have played around with the idea of creating a serif’d version of Vermarco before, and even done some hand sketches, but have never seen it on a memorial in the cemetery.
Hi Aubrey, thanks for the update. I’m not sure why I didn’t mention Peebles Script before. It is slightly different than Athletic Script, though they both share all of the same characters pictured in your image. If you run into this again but find that the capital G, J, L, or Z do not match up, then what you are running into is Athletic Script and not Peebles. I believe all of the lowercase letters and numbers are the same in each font.
Yes, I can help you with it but would need photo examples of as much of the existing lettering as you have available to work from.
Hello, this is the plastic ScotchKut/SKS Double Outline alphabet with the inside lines removed, creating a slightly awkward Bold Roman. You can see that the letters vary a bit on the name line when compared to the date, which can be seen most notably in the letter ‘R’, and is due to the fact that the plastic SKS letters differ at various size breaks.
In the MLC font shop you can see digital versions created to match the plastic letters at each of the sizes. Fonts designed to match the medium and large sizes, which should match the surname and name lines are bundled, can be seen here: https://www.monumentletteringcenter.com/product/mlc-scotchkut-double-outline-medium-large/
A font to match the smallest sets, which should match the date lines, can be seen here: https://www.monumentletteringcenter.com/product/mlc-scotchkut-double-outline-small/
It should be noted that the commas appear to have been elongated by hand by a stencil cutter, and will need to be manipulated to match what is on the stone. The original commas in this alphabet, as well as in the MLC fonts are much shorter. The ‘J’ used for this inscription was one of two included with the plastic alphabets, and is included in the MLC fonts as an OpenType alternate, which may not be accessible in your software unless it supports OpenType features.
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Hi Paul, I looked around a bit but did not see a font that matches this in any memorial design software font catalogs. I’m not even quite sure what language this is, but I believe it may have been hand-drawn. Is this a form of Cyrillic?
Hi Chris, this is a font only available in Monu-Cad named Roman Italic Medium.
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