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Hello, this is an inline version of an Engraver’s Roman. After a quick search I believe this is a font named Rosella Pro Inline.
Hello, this appears to be a hand-cut Modified Roman. This means a metal Spacerite alphabet would have been used and transferred to the sandblast stencil before being cut by hand with a knife.
Because it was hand-cut, the weight may vary, or certain features may have been embellished or understated depending on the tastes of the individual monument shop or stencil cutter; but there is digital version available in the MLC shop that may be a good starting point, here: https://www.monumentletteringcenter.com/product/mlc-spacerite-modified-roman-handcut/
Hi Lydia, each of these are examples of custom hand-drawn lettering. You can see quite a bit of variance from letter to letter, which you would not see with a reproducible letter set or font. Prior to the late 1960s there were only a handful of metal letter sets available for reproducing an alphabet on a memorial, mostly made available by the Spacerite Company. The inscription would be transferred from the metal letters to the sandblast stencil via rubbing paper and would then be cut by hand and sandblasted–or in the case of hand-chiseled lettering, the inscription would be drawn directly on the stone and then chiseled.
After the stencil press was created in 1968, many more alphabets became available to use as plastic letter sets, some of them being borrowed from common print industry fonts. So, much of the more unique looking lettering you see on older headstones was likely custom work.
Hello Chad, this is a custom hand-drawn inscription. You can see that the lowercase o’s are quite different in shape and size. The numeral 1’s also have a bit of variance near their top as well.
If you would like help matching the lettering, you may be interested in using the Inscription Matching Service.
Hi Monica, it’s a bit hard to tell from this photo, but it looks like this is a font named Life, that has been manually condensed.
Hi Scott, I believe this is a hand-drawn custom Modified Roman, though the G’s are more like a Condensed or Slender Roman.
Good afternoon, this is a font style typically known as “faux-hebrew”. Our Latin alphabet written using the style of traditional Hebrew lettering. There are a number of free fonts available in this style, as well as some available for purchase, though none of them will likely match this inscription exactly, as it appears to have been hand-drawn.
Hi Chris, the font for the names and dates is named Roman Italic Medium, it’s a proprietary font currently only available in the Monu-Cad software.
If you would like help matching it, feel free to use the MLC Inscription Matching Service.
Hello, this is a version of Times New Roman available only in the Gerber design software. It is more condensed, is overall bolder, and has much thicker serifs than the standard print industry version.
If you would like help matching it feel free to use the MLC Inscription Matching Service.
This is a proprietary font available in Cochran’s Monumental Designer simply named Script. There is also a version available for Gerber at the Drafting Shoppe under the name Script European.
Hello, this is hand drawn and hand carved lettering. Physical alphabets, or anything that we might consider as “fonts” now were not used on memorials during the time period this was produced—though this was a common lettering style at the time.
It does appear to read: “at Brus**** France”, or “at Bras**** France”. It is also quite possible the name of the city, region, or village in France was misspelled on this memorial.
