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Hi John, this is the Spacerite Classic Roman, it originally came out in 1925 at the same time as the Spacerite company introduced their Modified Roman, but the Modified Roman quickly became much more popular.
This font is made more difficult to identify by the fact that the original font used—and the second date added to Margene’s side at a later date—are actually two different versions of Baskerville. This can be seen by looking at the two different ‘4’s used in Margene’s years of birth and death.
The original version is Baskerville ACCT AK Rev B in Gerber. I am unaware of any other version of this font outside of Gerber.
The March date added later appears to be Libre Baskerville.
This job will need to have a mixture of the two fonts in order to not be noticeably different.
This is a verison of Edwardian Script. However, the original by ITC does not seem to have the ball serifs at the end of the strokes, even though they are often shown in sample images of the typeface.
Hi John, I believe this is a Design Mart font available only for the Gerber Omega software. It is simply named “Script”, and can be purchased by contacting Design Mart. It is based on the print industry font “English 111 – Vivace”, but has been made bolder and the ‘S’ has been modified. It is possible there are other versions of the font under different names.
Just, kidding, this font is called Alcuin! The numbers are old-style numerals though, which is strange because I cannot find a version of the font that includes them.
Hi Torrey, unfortunately I am unable to track down this font, semi-serif fonts are pretty rare. However, it is very similar to a font called Areplos.
Hello, at first glance this appears to be a hand-cut Modified and Condensed Roman, but the consistency of the characters makes it more likely that this is an unknown custom digital font.
Hi John, this is Goudy Bold or Goudy Old Style Bold. It looks like it may be the version of Goudy available in the Gerber Omega software.
Hi Jill, this is indeed the FAH Modified Roman. If it isn’t wide or bold enough it was likely modified. Since it was originally always hand-cut it was often slightly modified by the stencil cutter. I would recommend adding a slight stroke to the letters to increase the weight, or manually stretching it to match the width.
This is likely hand drawn, as there were no reproducible script-style fonts available to the industry until the 1970s or 1980s. It seems loosely based on the Vermont Marble Company’s colonial script style alphabet, which was printed in a booklet titled “Lettering in Marble” in 1923, and often referenced throughout the first half of the twentieth century.
The dates are in the Spacerite Double Outline alphabet with the second outline removed. There are no known digital versions of the style, but the Monument Lettering Center is currently working on one.
Feel free to reach out if you are interested in using the MLC Inscription Matching Service for either of these lettering styles: https://www.monumentletteringcenter.com/product/cemetery-inscription-matching-service/
Hi Michael, this is the ScotchKut Double Outline, or more than likely a digital font based on the original plastic alphabet. There are three versions of the font, which differ depending on the size of the original letter sets. It is unclear whether the version of the font used for the surname is based on the largest or medium-sized alphabets, but the names and dates appear to be based on the medium sizes.
The MLC has created versions of the font to match the medium and large sets of the fonts: https://www.monumentletteringcenter.com/product/mlc-scotchkut-double-outline-medium-large/
As well as the small sets: https://www.monumentletteringcenter.com/product/mlc-scotchkut-double-outline-small/
This is interesting. It’s a modified version of the Concorde font. Another version of the font named “Dutch 809” is nearly identical, but both fonts have a different capital ‘J’ than is pictured here. It looks as if the ‘J’ was borrowed from another similar font such as Calisto.
