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Hello, this is Jenson Medium in Gerber.

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Um, wow. Someone had fun while hand-cutting the Spacerite Modified Roman letters in the sandblast stencil. This is going to need to be manually matched, but you can use the Spacerite Modified Roman Handcut font as a starting point, or if you’d like you can use the MLC Inscription Matching Service.

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Hi Jill, yes I am almost certain this is Helvetica Med Comp Acct AK Rev B in Gerber, which is based on “Helvetica Inserat” but much thinner.

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Ok, now that I see the spur serifs on the numbers I can see clearly hat this is a font in Cochran’s software named Round Raised. As the name would make you assume, this is a font usually used for round raised lettering. The surname is also a Cochran’s font named Splayed Gothic, but it has been modified to have a bar across the top of the ‘J’, which isn’t there in the original font.

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Hi John, this is an unknown version of Condensed Roman, I believe it to be a custom font created by a manufacturer, as I’ve run into it a few times now and needed to match it for several customers–but to my knowledge it is not available in any memorial design software.

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It’s a little difficult to tell from the image, but this appears to be a hand-drawn Common Gothic. All known versions of this font, including pre-digital letter sets had a notched numeral 1. But a Common Gothic font should match this very closely with minimal adjustments, including the MLC SKS Common Gothic: https://www.monumentletteringcenter.com/product/mlc-scotchkut-common-gothic/

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This is one of the two Gerber versions of Bold Roman, which have square punctuation like this.

There is an MLC version available but the punctuation will not match up: https://www.monumentletteringcenter.com/product/mlc-signature-series-roman-bold-outline/

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Hi Darren, what you’ve got there is one of the two Gerber versions of Bold Roman/Roman Bold. This is the thinner of the two, the other being quite a bit bolder. There are several versions available in various monument design software applications. I also have an MLC version available which is very close, but the punctuation will be quite different: https://www.monumentletteringcenter.com/product/mlc-signature-series-roman-bold-outline/

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Hello, what you’ve got in the first image is a custom version of the Government alphabet used on Veteran’s headstones, which was a set of metal letters and numbers developed in the 1940s for the government by the Spacerite Company. Before this time the alphabet used on these government-issued headstones varied from manufacturer to manufacturer, but it was eventually decided that there should be a standardized lettering style. The main differences between the original alphabet and what was used for the memorial in your image can be seen in the numbers. I have seen evidence that the Spacerite company did produce custom versions of the alphabet, and due to the amount and consistency of the lettering on this memorial, a physical alphabet was almost certainly used to transfer the lettering to the sandblast stencil. You can read more about the Government alphabet here: https://www.monumentletteringcenter.com/product/mlc-spacerite-government-font/

In the second image, you have an entirely hand-drawn and hand-carved custom lettering style. This would have been designed either by Gehron and Seltzer—the architecture firm who designed the memorial—or possibly by the quarry/manufacturer the granite was sourced from.

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If you’d like help matching this, you might want to try out the Inscription Matching Service.

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Hello Steven, I believe this is a custom hand-drawn Roman.

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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.

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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.

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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.

If you’d like help matching it feel free to use the Inscription Matching Service.

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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.

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