Member Jam… Posted October 29, 2010 Share Posted October 29, 2010 > I spent four summers of my youth working > at my family’s funeral home My brother is a minister and has heard some interesting anecdotes from his funeral director friends. Like the time one of the funeral directors was listening to a ball game on the radio while driving the hearse to the cemetery, and was so distracted that he drove 5 miles past the cemetery, with a long procession of mourners following dutifully in their cars. When he realized his error he turned the hearse around in a parking lot, with all the mourners following him, and headed back to the cemetery. He expected the family to chew him out later, but they never said a word. Link to comment
Member Chr… Posted October 30, 2010 Author Share Posted October 30, 2010 Cross posted from Font for old Spanish gravestone? Link to comment
Member old… Posted October 30, 2010 Share Posted October 30, 2010 Some of Eric Gill's first forays into typeface design were in the field of tombstone lettering. These letterforms are based on his work on Percy Joseph Hiscock's tombstone in Chichester caathedral... Link to comment
Member Ric… Posted October 31, 2010 Share Posted October 31, 2010 Amazing photo, Neverblink! It seems a book cover. Link to comment
Member hra… Posted October 31, 2010 Share Posted October 31, 2010 Superb photo. Horrible tombstone - it's like the guy never lived. hhp Link to comment
Member eli… Posted October 31, 2010 Share Posted October 31, 2010 It seems a book cover. I half-expect to see an Amazon "Click to LOOK INSIDE!" banner on top! Link to comment
Member Chr… Posted October 31, 2010 Author Share Posted October 31, 2010 @neverblink: Do you have a high res so we can read the type at the base of the stone? I'd love to see what Müller-Brockmann's tombstone looks like. Does anyone know where he is buried? Link to comment
Member nev… Posted November 1, 2010 Share Posted November 1, 2010 @Christopher The image I posted was taken from Creative Review. It's a headstone done by Peter Saville and Ben Kelly for their friend and collaborator Anthony H Wilson. You can read the full article, with more photos here: https://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2010/october/peter-saville-anth... Link to comment
Member sim… Posted November 1, 2010 Share Posted November 1, 2010 Yeah, like I said in the Creative Review blog comments, I'm not sure Rotis is a very good typeface for a tombstone, particularly at the letter sizes Saville uses here. I'm not keen on Rotis and, if I'm honest, I was never really keen on Tony Wilson: then again, saves ruining another couple - an unappealing '80s type for an unappealing media type. Link to comment
Member mik… Posted November 1, 2010 Share Posted November 1, 2010 not typographic necessarily, but a few classics here http://caughtdeadinthat.tumblr.com/ Link to comment
Member hra… Posted November 1, 2010 Share Posted November 1, 2010 It's interesting that the two cubes are actually making a Muslim star. hhp Link to comment
Member Jam… Posted November 1, 2010 Share Posted November 1, 2010 I like Rand's memorial although it vaguely reminds me of a pair of dice. Link to comment
Member Chr… Posted June 30, 2011 Author Share Posted June 30, 2011 A related thread on gravestones of famous designers, typographers and lettering artists. Link to comment
Member Tyl… Posted June 30, 2011 Share Posted June 30, 2011 I want my tombstone in comic sans, sort of as a cosmic middle finger to the universe. Link to comment
Member Té… Posted July 1, 2011 Share Posted July 1, 2011 I have already picked out my epitaph: ^D Probably oughta be monospaced, though, something like VT320. Link to comment
Member nin… Posted July 2, 2011 Share Posted July 2, 2011 Related (and beautiful): Unzipped: Custom font for tombstone by Janno Hahn Link to comment
Member hra… Posted July 2, 2011 Share Posted July 2, 2011 Very nice. BTW, what's wrong with Janno Hahn anyway? hhp Link to comment
Member Chr… Posted April 26, 2012 Author Share Posted April 26, 2012 From The delights of reading upside down. Link to comment
Member qua… Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 It's quite true that, in general, one does not have tombstone typography. Nor is it really tombstone calligraphy, although that comes closer. I did a search on "monumental lettering", hoping to find the correct term, but it seems that there is no single word, and that phrase is often what is used for what the people who carved the Trajan column did. So there you have it. Tombstone Monumental Lettering as a possible improved title for this thread. Link to comment
Member hra… Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 Actually these days most tombstones are done by machine, so it's definitely typography. Not a very good kind of typography, but still. hhp Link to comment
Member Rya… Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 Am I the only one who plans on being cremated? Link to comment
Member hra… Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 I'd like to go straight into the earth in my birthday suit. But it's probably illegal since it doesn't cost much money. hhp Link to comment
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