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Good afternoon, this is an old Modified Roman alphabet produced on copper sheets for the purpose of transferring to stencil via rubbing paper, and was first introduced by a company named Holes and McClellan, which would later become the Floyd A. Holes company.
The MLC has created a digital version, available in the font shop: https://www.monumentletteringcenter.com/product/mlc-fah-modified-roman/
Hello Torrey, this is a version of Zapf Chancery Regular, though it looks like the ‘y’ from Zapf Chancery Italic has been used.
Hello, this looks like the Spacerite Modified Roman was used. Because it was always hand-cut after transferring the rubbing to the stencil, the serifs and other features can vary quite a bit like this.
The MLC has a digital version of the font available, but because of the variation of hand-cutting techniques used, there will be some differences to what is on this memorial: MLC Modified Roman SR.
Hello Ayden, the font from the image you attached is named Modified Roman, and is most likely the Spacerite Modified Roman, which is the first version of the font created for the memorial industry as a set of metal letters and numbers in 1925. The punctuation in the image appears to have been hand drawn.
The MLC has created a digital version of the Spacerite alphabet, available here along with more historical information: https://www.monumentletteringcenter.com/product/mlc-spacerite-modified-roman/
Hello, this font is called Titus Medium, and is currently only available in digital form in the Gerber Omega software.
Hi Kim, while the artist may have borrowed some letters or parts of letters from existing fonts, this is definitely hand-drawn lettering. You can see an amusing mistake on the ‘i’ in “still”, where the half serifs on the stroke are going the wrong direction.
This would be best matched by creating custom lettering in the same style rather than trying to piece something together from similar existing fonts.
If you would like help matching this, feel free to utilize the MLC Inscription Matching Service.
Hi, this is Monu-Cad’s version of an old plastic stencil press alphabet by the PALL corporation. Monu-Cad’s version has the numbers from Zapf Chancery instead of the original numbers, and they named their version of the font “Valley Script”.
If you’d like help matching it, feel free to use the MLC Inscription Matching Service.
Hello, this is a font called Latin 725. There are also versions by the same type designer, Adrian Frutiger, for different foundries under the names Meridien and Frutiger Serif.
Hello, this is an old plastic stencil press alphabet by the PALL corporation, and became fairly popular in and around Scandanavia. It has been digitized by several memorial design software companies.
I have a set of the plastic letters and can match it for you if you’d like to use the MLC Inscription Matching Service.
This is a font called “Roman Modified Script” in Cochran’s software. It is based on a lettering style from a 1923 book titled “Lettering in Marble” by the Vermont Marble Company.
If you would like help matching it, feel free to use the MLC Inscription Matching Service.
Hello, this font has a bit of an unclear history, but it is a version of Times New Roman Bold that has been given alternate numbers, and typically used in the UK. There is a version of it with these numbers available in the Monu-Cad software, but it was not likely designed by Monu-Cad and was likely included at the request of one of their early UK users. There are almost certainly other versions of the font available in other memorial design software that are more popular in the UK than Monu-Cad. It is not available commercially as a TrueType or OpenType font.
Hi Tom, this is a custom AICA member font named Regal Roman. You can reach out to your local AICA member who created the monument and they can help you match it, or feel free to use the MLC Inscription Matching Service.
This appears to be a custom version of Times New Roman. Someone likely modified it to make it more difficult to match, or perhaps for personal preference.
