the ottawa font follows on the heels of the gotham font. It couldn’t be helped -:)

Whereas, the gotham font has a very clean, linear architectural feel (with minimal descenders visually accentuating the horizontal baseline), the ottawa font re-introduces the cross-t descender (though much more subtly than the singspiel font)..

The descender of the extended f is reduced from the original y descender depth—the traditional depth when this glyph is extended. While the gotham font attempts more traditional profile, the descender of the ottawa font visually balances its extended cap height, providing a less accented, yet naturally proportioned glyph shape to the remainder of the glyph set.

Whereas the singspiel font presents a visual rhythmic cadence with its prominent lower case f and t descenders, the ottawa font’s emphasis leans towards a more organic presentation. The upward flare of ottawa’s less accentuated descending t (and f), adjacent to other descending glyphs, goes largely unnoticed (despite their frequency), instead, adding a graceful visual line. The return of the straight-turned lower case y also adds to this effect.

The font has a pleasing rendering, though, gotham’s leaner horizontal presentation should feel more familiar for most. i happen to like both these fonts and, so far, have be leaning towards this variant for its character and readability—despite the uniqueness of the descending t, it does render more legible.

As always, YMMV.

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This font may be found on OneDrive.