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WATERLOO Gotham Font

The University of Waterloo has purchased the licence to use Gotham font for university publications, printed materials, and correspondence.

The Gotham font is also used in the wordmarks for the University of Waterloo, its faculties, departments, and support areas. If your area requires a wordmark, please consult with Creative Services (formerly Graphic Services). Wordmarks are carefully spaced and will be created as graphic elements for your use.

It can be used as body text and for headlines and is available to all Waterloo faculty and staff using university-owned computing equipment. Note that when embedding the font, for example in PDF files, you must subset the character set to only those used in the document. The font may not be used for dynamic text. On the web, the font may be used to create GIF and JPG files, and Flash files with static text (provided the font is subsetted), but not for font embedding technologies such as SIFR and @font-face.

Creative Services has chosen Le Monde as the serif font to complement Gotham in publications. However, that font is available only through Creative Services projects: for everyday use, please use Times New Roman as the preferred Waterloo serif font.

A style guide is available: Your WATERLOO Positioning Guide.

Download instructions

  • administrative credentials may be required for download/installation (ie. Nexus)
  • IST managed ADS PCs (Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7) should use the IST Software Delivery Request method.
  • all others, continue with the following instructions:

Requirements to download

You must meet the following requirements to be able to download this font:
  • I am downloading on to a computer owned by the University of Waterloo, and located within the University network
  • I will not distribute copies of this product to others
  • I will only install this product on a single machine
  • I agree to abide by the terms of the license (PDF)
I agree to the above conditions:

You will need to authenticate with your UWuserid/password

Installation Instructions

Mac OS X
  1. Double-click the downloaded file to unzip it.
  2. Launch the Font Book application -> /Applications/Font Book.
  3. Then choose File-> Add Fonts.
  4. Select the “HFJ_Gotham_1” folder that is in your downloads folder, then the “OpenType” folder from within that folder.
  5. Then click the "Open" button to install the fonts.
Windows 7 / Vista / XP
  1. Save the ZIP file to a local folder on the computer, e.g. C:\TEMP
    Note: Windows 7 wouldn’t allow me to copy the files into the FONTS folder from the N-drive – a network drive.
  2. Unzip the file to the same local folder.
  3. Open the “HFJ_Gotham_1” folder.
  4. Open the “OpenType” folder.
  5. Select all 8 ‘otf’ files and then right-click and choose “COPY”
  6. Open C:\Windows\Fonts
  7. Paste the 8 files into the FONTS folder. In Windows 7 and Vista, you will likely be asked for a administrative username and password.