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December 16, 2025 at 12:00 am in reply to: Font ID. This font has evaded me for a long time. Any help would be Appreciated #12401
MLCKeymasterUnfortunately, they do not sell or generally distribute the font. The will do layouts for you for a fee.
December 12, 2025 at 4:30 pm in reply to: Font ID. This font has evaded me for a long time. Any help would be Appreciated #12392
MLCKeymasterHi Carl, this is a custom Cold Spring Granite font name Monument Times New Roman. It is based on Times but with some changes, including the letter ‘J’, and entirely different numbers.
MLCKeymasterHi John, this is Lombardic style lettering, sometimes also referred to as Uncial in the monument industry, though it is not an uncial style. As with many bronze lettering styles, I believe this is a custom alphabet created by a bronze company.
I have two fonts in the MLC font shop that are similar in style: https://www.monumentletteringcenter.com/product-tag/lombardic-uncial/
MLCKeymasterThis appears to be Apollo MT Semibold.
MLCKeymasterHello, I believe this is Cormorant Garamond Bold Italic.
MLCKeymasterThis appears to be a hand-drawn version of the font Benguiat Bold.
MLCKeymasterThe font needed to match the name and dates looks like the Olson font in the Monu-Cad software. There are no other versions available outside of Monu-Cad that I am aware of.
I believe the font used on the surname may be a different font.
MLCKeymasterHello, this appears to be Zapf Chancery Italic, with the ‘J’ swapped out with one from another font. it is possibly from Regular Zapf Chancery, but manually slanted, or perhaps the ‘J’ from Lucida Calligraphy, which is another chancery style font.
MLCKeymasterHello this is a version of Clarendon Condensed.
MLCKeymasterHello Brian, I believe this is a version of the Univers font.
November 17, 2025 at 4:32 pm in reply to: I don’t think it’s Clarendon. The serifs are different. Any ideas? #12323
MLCKeymasterHello, this is a font named Tiffany.
MLCKeymasterHello Chris, this is a version of the Commercial Script font.
MLCKeymasterThis appears to be hand-drawn lettering. In the 1960s there were only a few “fonts” available for reproducing lettering in the form of plastic or metal letters, and at that time they were all memorial industry specific styles. Though it was possible to hand-draw lettering styles based on existing typefaces, fonts like Baker Signet were not used on memorials until sometime in the 1990s as the digital era was underway.
MLCKeymasterThis is the latin characters in the Google font named Aref Ruqaa Bold. Additionally, the font you named as Tailends is based on a free font named Black Chancery, of which there are several free versions available online with some differences.
MLCKeymasterHello Nicolas, this is believed to be an old plastic stencil press alphabet, likely originally created by a company in Europe. A Canadian company named PMD created a version in the 1980s, but it did not contain any numbers. They named their version Victorian #2. Unfortunately, I am not aware of any digital versions of this alphabet, though I would love to know more information about it if you find anything—or see more images if you come across more of this in the cemetery.
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