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This is a version of Times New Roman specific to the monument industry. Design Mart has it available in TTF format, which is currently the only commercially available version. If you’d like help matching this, feel free to utilize the MLC matching service: https://www.monumentletteringcenter.com/product/cemetery-inscription-matching-service/
This is Monu-Cad’s version of the font Commercial Script, which they’ve renamed to “Script Sandblast”. Along with some other minor differences, this version is bolder and more upright than the original commercial font.
This is a Monu-Cad font called Valley Script, which is based on an old plastic stencil press alphabet. It is currently the only known digital version, and for some reason Monu-Cad replaced the numerals with those from Zapf Chancery–which do not match the style of the letters. The physical alphabet was available under different names (including “Scandanavian Script”, and “Specialty Script”) from various stencil press companies in both Europe and North America and was itself based on an old metal type alphabet. The alphabet was used on memorials much more widely in Europe than in the US market. The MLC has a set of the plastic letters and will be making a version of the font at some point in the future, until then, if you’d like help matching this lettering feel free to use the matching service: https://www.monumentletteringcenter.com/product/cemetery-inscription-matching-service/
Hello, this is a font called Goudy Bold. This is possibly the version included in the Gerber Omega software.
I will look around and see what I’ve got in my Spacerite sets. However, it looks like you might have a mixed set of Modified Roman and Classic Roman letters. For instance, most of the letters appear to be from a Modified Roman alphabet, but the ‘A’ on the bottom appears to be much wider than a Modified Roman ‘A’.
Hello, this is a free font called Uncial Antiqua, and can be downloaded here: https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/uncial-antiqua
Yes, this is a font called Accolade Medium: https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/urw/accolade/
Hello Renee, this appears to be Caslon Openface, with the inside sections of the stems removed. You can find the font here: https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/linotype/caslon-open-face/
Hello Grant, thanks for reaching out. I believe what you’ve got for the family name is a digital font based on the largest sized sets of plastic SKS Modified Roman letters. Depending on their height, these sets of letters varied slightly in weight and serif thickness. You can see in the attached photo that there is some slight difference in the thickness of the stems, and thickness/length of some of the serifs–which is why this is likely a digital recreation of the original alphabet.
The flat marker looks to have a digital recreation of the SKS Modified Roman Heavy Bar. This was a separate version of the Modified Roman alphabet created with slightly heavier “bars” or stems. I believe the apparent difference in weight is only due to the difference in size, and that only one font was used on the marker. The original plastic letters of this style did not change based on their size. You can see in the attached photos that the general letter forms are very similar (except ‘A’ which seems to be backwards on the stone–and perhaps ‘V’ and ‘Y’ as well), though what you have on your marker again has slightly thicker stems than did the original plastic letters.
Unfortunately, most digital versions of these alphabets are included as proprietary fonts in specific monument designing software, and it’s unclear which software was used to create them.
Fonts used in the photos:
MLC Modified Roman SKS 1.25-3″
Hello Renee, this appears to be either a custom lettering style, perhaps by a local shop at the time, or an old letter set that did not receive wide distribution in the industry. It’s definitely not anything available as a commercial font, and it isn’t in any memorial design software.
This will need to be a custom match digitally or by hand. Feel free to use the inscription matching service: https://www.monumentletteringcenter.com/product/cemetery-inscription-matching-service/
Unsure if this is a font or perhaps a handcut Modified Roman based on the metal Spacerite letters and made bolder by hand. Interesting that the ‘V’ is backwards. I’ve not seen this font included in any of the main monument design software font catalogs.
Hi Eric, this is a font called Victorian.
Yes, this is a version of a font called University Roman, and it appears to have been thickened up a bit.
I believe this is all hand-drawn and cut, and unfortunately I’ve never seen a font that is close to this. It would be best to match it manually, either digitally or by hand.
If you’d like help, feel free to use the MLC’s matching service, where matching this type of custom job is common: https://www.monumentletteringcenter.com/product/cemetery-inscription-matching-service/
