Its just a distinctive way of writing that gets more attention than sans-serif block letters. Poorer people in subcultures may not wear Abercrombie and Fitch or drive Mercedes to show their “individuality” so they resort to other things. More middle class Mexican-Americans wouldn’t do such a thing. ![]() ![]() In El Paso, I mainly associate it with seeing last names stenciled in the back window of a Ford truck, or seeing it stictched to t-shirts and baseball caps…but its definitely a working class affectation. Within Mexican-American culture, the ‘Old English’ fonts are mostly associated with some street sub-cultures (‘lowrider’, ‘cholo’, etc.).
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