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Hello, I believe this is Univers 85 Oblique, and the name and dates have likely been manually squeezed, which is why the angles of each line all differ.
The closest font I know of is called Gloucester Extra Condensed Bold, or Cheltenham Bold Extra Condensed.
Unfortunately, this font is not immediately identifiable. A closer photo would be helpful, as the quality of the image makes it difficult to see smaller details that may help.
Hi Brian, this is an old custom Delano Granite Works lettering style called Antique. Unfortunately, it’ll need to be manually matched.
If you’d like help matching it, feel free to use the MLC Inscription Matching Service: https://www.monumentletteringcenter.com/product/cemetery-inscription-matching-service/
Hello Monica, this appears to be an entirely hand-drawn and hand-cut design, including the block-style lettering. The lettering seems to vary quite a bit at the different sizes, so it will be difficult to find any one font to match it, and it will need to be custom matched, or modified from an existing font.
If you would like help matching it, feel free to use the MLC Inscription Matching Service.
Hi Jill, this is a memorial industry version of Times New Roman. It was modified quite a bit from Times, especially noticeable in the numbers. DesignMart sells a version of the font.
As always, if you’d like help matching it, feel free to use the MLC Inscription Matching Service.
This looks like one of the Gerber Omega Modified Roman fonts that’s been outlined in the software.
It is also possibly a version of an outlined Modified Roman font in the SignLab software called “Polished”.
It’s hard to tell from this photo, but this looks like Monu-Cad’s “Individual Modified” font. However, the font used for the surname is a Gerber font so it seems strange to have them used together on one memorial, but the font used for the names and dates is not a standard Gerber font that I am aware of.
Hi John, this is the Spacerite Old English. The MLC has created a version of the font to match the original metal Spacerite alphabet. The numbers on the original Spacerite version, however, were sized down from the capitals. For instance, at a 1″ height for the letters, the numbers are about .875″ tall. The MLC version follows the original sizing convention for the numbers, but what you have here on this memorial looks like the numbers have been sized up to match the letter height. If you purchase and use the MLC version you’ll need to manually size the numbers up as well.
Hi Torrey, this appears to be the SKS Double Outline with the serifs manually removed. I’ve never seen this done to this font specifically before, which is likely due to the fact that it was a stencil press alphabet and not hand-cut, but I have seen it regularly with the old Spacerite Double Outline alphabet.
Unfortunately, I’ve never seen a digital version of this available and it will need to be custom matched.
Feel free to reach out if you’d like to use the MLC matching service.
Hello Toby, this is a font called Chapel, which is currently only available in Cochran’s Monumental Designer software.
If you would like help matching it for a final date, feel free to use the MLC Inscription Matching Service: https://www.monumentletteringcenter.com/product/cemetery-inscription-matching-service/
This is a version of Bold Roman/Roman Bold, which has been manually condensed. It is likely Gerber’s version, which is one of several that has square punctuation.
The MLC has it’s own version of the font which will match somewhat closely to this, available here: https://www.monumentletteringcenter.com/product/mlc-signature-series-roman-bold-outline/
