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Hello, this appears to be the ScotchKut (SKS) Modified Roman. It is possible it is a digital version, but does at least closely follow the original plastic letters. It contains the long thin serifs on the crossbar of the ‘T’, along with the notable feature of the bottom of the ‘W’ being very narrow compared to the top. The version of Modified Roman used for the epitaph at the bottom of the memorial also appears to be an SKS alphabet; the Raised Modified Roman. The MLC has digital versions of both of these alphabets:
In all monument design software that I know if it is simply named “Hebrew”, or in Gerber which is primarily a sign-making software it is named “Monument Hebrew”. It does have nice crisp corners, so you are probably correct that an outline/stroke was added.
Hello Buckley, this is a fairly common style of Hebrew used on memorials, but also very difficult to find the exact version used. It was first made as a metal Spacerite alphabet for transferring to stencil via rubbing paper and then made into plastic stencil press alphabets in the late 1960s by various companies. It has since been digitized and made available in I believe every memorial design software available. I also believe a number of monument shops ended up digitizing their own versions, so there are likely several dozen versions out there with slight difference. The style of Geresh and Gershayim (the marks appearing like our inch and feet notations in English) often vary quite a bit from version to version.
Hi Darren, this is a font in Cochran’s Monumental Designer software simply called “Script”. The Drafting Shoppe has also created a version of the font for Gerber users named “Script European”.
Hello, this appears to be a hand-drawn Modified Roman—though it is possible that the metal Spacerite Modified Roman alphabet was used as a base with the stencil cutter making some of the strokes thinner and the serifs thicker, but I am not aware of a digital version of the font that will match what you have here very closely.
If you’d like help matching this, feel free to use the MLC Inscription Matching Service: https://www.monumentletteringcenter.com/product/cemetery-inscription-matching-service/
Hello, this is a very interesting lettering style. It’s a “Ball-serif” font, but I believe this is custom hand-drawn lettering and not a font—as those ball-serifs are much larger than anything I’ve seen before and this memorial was made before the computer era.
If you would like help matching it, please feel free to use the Inscription Matching Service: https://www.monumentletteringcenter.com/product/cemetery-inscription-matching-service/
Alternatively, if you’d like help matching this feel free to use the MLC Matching Service: https://www.monumentletteringcenter.com/product/cemetery-inscription-matching-service/
Hi Darren, yes this looks like either the metal Spacerite Modified Roman letters were used for the layout and then the stencil was very roughly cut by hand, or this was possibly just a version of Modified Roman drawn entirely by hand. The MLC has a TTF version of “handcut” Modified Roman available which has these sharp serifs, but it would need to be further modified in order to match this inscription very closely: https://www.monumentletteringcenter.com/product/mlc-spacerite-modified-roman-handcut/
Hi Darren, I believe this is a version of Times New Roman only available in the Gerber Omega system, named “Times New Roman-GSP ACCT AK Rev A”.
Hello, this is a print industry font called Latin 725. There are also versions of it available from different font foundries under the names “Meridien”, and “Frutiger Serif” (named after the designer, Adrian Frutiger).
In Cochran’s software, there is a version simply named “Latin”.
Hi Tom, I believe this is a hand-drawn script lettering style, but it does appear to be based directly on the Commercial Script font, only with less “thick and thin” contrast to the letters.
Hi John, this is a hand-drawn round-raised alphabet. Unfortunately, I am not aware of any digital fonts that are similar enough to match this terribly closely.
Hi John, this is a Monu-Cad font named Bevel Panel Letter 1. It is based on a plastic stencil press alphabet by the PMD Company, named Eurostyle Condensed, which was based on an even earlier metal alphabet created by the Spacerite Company simply named “Panel”. The Monu-Cad and stencil press versions were slightly bolder and have sharper serifs.
Yes, the straighter “racetrack” sides of the typically more oval characters like ‘C’, ‘G’, and ‘D’ are a notable feature of Remco’s font, along with the more abrupt hook on the base of the leg of the ‘R’, rather than a more graceful curve.
