"Drone is a primitive serif font based on lettering seen in hispanic catholic churches"

What a big surprise! Where are those hispanic letters?

Anybody?

Hi, Jos� Mar�a, doesn't Drone remind you of the lettering in public buldings from the early fascist period in Spain? all those patriotic slogans, victors, and the Falange stuff?

It vaguely reminds me of the inscriptions on Arco del Triunfo, Valle de los Ca�dos, Ministerios, some buildings belonging to the Complutense University, etc. It may be just me but it has a very Moncloa/Toledo feel to it

Maybe... I'm not an expert in the lettering from that period, though I am enough aged to remenber it. Perhaps is because the memory is so selective...

Anyway, I think Drone is inspired in _bad_ lettering, hispanic or not. I don't see nothing specifically hispanic or, at least, Spanish in those letters. It reminds you the Arco del Triunfo (symptomatic name...) because you hate it. I'd never been at the Valle de los Ca�dos.

Probably the best aproach to those _hispanic_ letters, strange but strong, is the Andreu Balius and Joan Carles Casas�n project for the University of Salamanca.

Just for those who don't know it:

http://www.andreubalius.com/andreubalius/type02_01.html