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Hi Randy, this is an AICA association member font named Elite Roman. However, these numbers are not the typical numbers that are used with the font. This may be a hand-drawn version, or someone altered the numbers of one of the digital AICA versions for stylistic preference.
You can reach out to your local AICA member, or feel free to use the MLC Inscription Matching Service if you’d like help matching it.
Hi Ken, this looks like a hand-drawn version of Modified Roman Raised. There were several versions of this available as plastic stencil press alphabets beginning in the late 1960s, but I regularly match hand-drawn variations for several customers who use the Inscription Matching Service. I have a digital version designed to match the plastic alphabets produced by the PMD company for their Cutrite line of alphabets, here: MLC Modified Roman Raised PC. It will be similar, but ultimately not exact and would need adjustments to match this.
Hi Brian, this is a font named Calligraphy FLF, a version of El Greco, but with several differences, including the numbers.
Hi Brian, I believe this is a hand-drawn frosted outlined sans—though I see similar lettering fairly often.
Hi Randy, this is a font in the Monu-Cad software named Times Roman. As you can see, it is not Times Roman, though the letters are based on Times Extra Bold, but with entirely different numbers. There was also a version of the font available in the Craftech software named Century.
That appears to be a version of Times New Roman, but it looks like an outline/stroke was added for extra thickness.
Hello, this appears to be custom Cyrillic lettering. While it is impressively consistent for hand-drawn lettering, upon close inspection there is some variance between duplicate letters.
Unsure, though it looks like it may have been a customized version of an existing font. I believe Star Granite has some of their own versions of various sans-serif fonts like this that they use with a lowered crossbar on the ‘A’. It may be worth checking with them.
Unsure on this one, it looks like someone may have customized their own version of the font. I’ve definitely never run into this before.
Hello John, this is custom hand-drawn Classic Roman lettering. At the time this monument was made hand-drawn lettering was still very common. Even after letter sets were popularized for creating inscriptions and hand-cutting them into the sandblast stencil, it was still common to see hand-drawn lettering used for a surname on a monument like this because most letter sets were not produced above 3.5″ tall.
If you would like help matching this lettering for a new memorial, you might be interested in using the Inscription Matching Service.
Additionally, you can use a somewhat similar font like the MLC Classic Roman SR font, which is based on the old metal Spacerite Classic Roman alphabet: https://www.monumentletteringcenter.com/product/mlc-spacerite-classic-roman/
This appears to be custom lettering.
If you would like help matching it, you might be interested in using the MLC Inscription Matching Service.
Hello, this is the old metal Spacerite Classic Roman alphabet. I have a digital version of it available in the font shop: https://www.monumentletteringcenter.com/product/mlc-spacerite-classic-roman/
The punctuation may have to be matched by hand.
