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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/
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/
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.
If you’d like help matching this, you might want to try out the Inscription Matching Service.
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.
If you’d like help matching it feel free to use the Inscription Matching Service.
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.
