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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.
Hello, is is difficult to tell from this image alone, but it is possibly Berthold Garamond. It may either be a condensed version, or have been manually condensed.
This is a version of Times New Roman Bold, likely with a stroke/outline added in a design software for extra thickness.
Hello Daniel, this is a font in the Monu-Cad software named Roman Italic Medium. It is the only known version of the font.
If you would like help matching it, feel free to use the MLC Inscription Matching Service.
Hello Whitney, this is a custom/modified version of the Vermarco font. The memorial appears to pre-date the digital era, so the Spacerite alphabet was likely used, with the changes being made by hand.
If you would like help matching it, feel free to use the MLC Inscription Matching Service.
Hello, thank you for sharing this image. This is a very rare memorial-industry alphabet created by a draftsmen named Robert Knox. Knox designed the alphabet and sold it to the industry in the form of metal lettering sheets. There are currently no digital versions available.
You can read more about Knox and his lettering sheets, here.
If you would like help matching it, feel free to use the MLC Inscription Matching Service.
