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Hello, this is Helvetica.

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Hello Chris, this is hand-drawn lettering. Inspired by the Art Deco movement, the style was introduced to the memorial industry in the late 1920s. Never becoming wildly popular it did see a slight resurgence in the 1960s and 70s with some Barre Guild firms.

It will need to be custom matched. If you would like help, feel free to use the MLC Inscription Matching Service.

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Hello Marc, this is a version of a font named ITC Novarese.

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Hi Lance, this is an American Institute of Commemorative Art member font named AICA-25 and was originally designed as a blueprint alphabet in the 1970s. Since then, it has been digitized by several of its members–though I’ve never seen a version of it used with this borrowed block-font punctuation before.

If you’d like help matching it, feel free to use the MLC Inscription Matching Service, or reach out to your closest AICA member.

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Hi Joshua, unfortunately, this lettering is all hand-drawn and will need to be custom matched.

If you don’t want to take care of it yourself, feel free to use the MLC Inscription Matching Service.

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Hello, this appears to be a digital version of the plastic ScotchKut Double Outline stencil press alphabet. The original alphabets changed significantly at different sizes, while the lettering on this memorial has the same design no matter the size.

It looks like a set of the larger alphabet was used to create this font.

The MLC has fonts available to match the alphabet in all sizes. Fonts matching the medium and large sizes are available here, and a font to match the smallest sizes of the alphabet is available here.

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Hi John, I believe this is a version of Times New Roman that is available only in the Gerber Omega software. It has bolder serifs and is more condensed than other versions of the font.

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Hello, unfortunately I know very little about this font, other than that I’ve been told the name is “Old English Fancy”.

I believe it is a monument industry-specific font, but I have never seen it available in any industry software font catalogs.

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Yes, potentially Marathon Serial or Palatino BQ.

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Hello, this is the Spacerite Old English alphabet, and the outline has been added either digitally or by hand.

The MLC has a version of the font available, here: https://www.monumentletteringcenter.com/product/mlc-spacerite-old-english/

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Hello, this is a Monu-Cad font named Bold Roman 1. There are no other versions available that I am aware of.

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Hi Brian, I believe this is hand-drawn sans-serif lettering. Popularized by Edward Peterson and other designers of the time, that treatment of the leg of the ‘R’ became somewhat common among memorialists during the 1960s and early 70s.

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Hi Aubrey, this is just good old fashioned hand drawn lettering. Many shops developed their own in-house styles and kept the tradition alive well into the late 1900s.

If you would like help matching this for a new family memorial, feel free to use the MLC Inscription Matching Service.

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Hello, this is Baskerville Old Face.

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Hello, this is a variation of a Celtic font, similar to Meath FLF. After a quick search I did not find a match, and it is possible that this was drawn by hand. There were a number of similar alphabets printed in various books on lettering during the early 20th century

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