This plaque is posted by the tomb of Col. Robert McCormick at Cantigny Park in Wheaton, Illinois. It gives the background information on the construction of his tomb, in the shape of the ancient Greek's exedra, and how it was constructed.
The typeface used is a super clean, very easy to read sans-serif, mono-space type, done in all capitol letters. The plaque itself is bronze set on a granite base--certainly designed to last as long as the tomb itself. I love the simple, elegant design, to the point of it being nearly boring. And yet, the bronze and the granite give it quite a bit of class. The typeface looks like something that would have come out of a linotype machine, which would be very appropriate for Col. McCormick, seeing how he was the owner and publisher of the Chicago Tribune newspaper.
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