Monument Marketing launches free online headstone designer

Monument Marketing Co. has launched Headstone Designer, a free website that lets families design a headstone online and send the finished layout to a local monument company. The tool is built to avoid selling stones itself, putting the ordering and carving work with the family’s chosen shop.

Why it matters: - Headstone Designer gives families a way to prepare a memorial design at home without committing to an online stone seller. - The workflow is built to pass the design to a local monument company, which handles pricing, proofing, carving and installation. - Monument Marketing Co. is positioning the tool as an alternative to the usual online headstone checkout model.

What happened: - Monument Marketing Co. launched Headstone Designer, a free website at headstonedesigners.com. - Families can design a headstone online, create a proof and send the finished design to their own local monument company. - The site does not require an account. - The site does not sell stones. - The company announced the launch on Oct. 9, 2026.

The details: - Headstone Designer asks one question at a time in everyday language and works on both phones and computers. - Users do not need to download software or enter a credit card. - The design view shows a lifelike polished granite stone in natural light. - Lettering is darkened, sized in inches and placed where it would be cut. - Each line shows its letter height. - The site flags lines that would be too small to read from a standing distance. - Users can rotate the stone to view the left, front and right sides. - Built-in options include five font styles, 15 symbols, four date formats and a library of starter lines. - When a design is finished, the site prints a proof sheet with front and angled views, the full inscription, the sizes and a signature line. - The platform includes 12 design types, including single and companion upright headstones, heart-shaped gravestones, flat and slant grave markers, pet headstones and a memorial bench. - Families can copy a link and send it by email or text. - The link opens the stone exactly as designed, with the inscription written out and the proof ready to print. - The wording is stored in the link itself, not on a server. - Monument Marketing Co. said the tool was built to hand a family’s work to the people who will actually carve the stone in their own town. - Monument companies can add Headstone Designer to their own websites and use their own stone photos. - Details for monument companies are available here. - A walkthrough video is available on YouTube.

Between the lines: - The product pushes families toward local monument shops instead of centralized e-commerce. - That could matter in cemeteries where local shops already know the size rules, granite requirements and setting standards. - The design tool also tries to solve a common emotional hurdle: seeing wording and layout before a final proof comes back from a shop. - Monument Marketing Co. is using the launch to deepen its role as a service provider to monument companies, not as a stone retailer.

What's next: - Monument companies can embed the designer on their own sites and send family submissions directly into their workflow. - Families can keep using the free site to design, print and share a proof with a chosen local monument company. - Monument Marketing Co. continues to offer related services for monument shops, including search, Google Ads, websites and phone answering.

The bottom line: - Headstone Designer is meant to be a free planning tool, not a sales funnel, and its main pitch is simple: design at home, buy locally.