Gotham (typeface) definition

Nickname for New York City; Washington Irving gave the name Gotham to New York City in his Salmagundi Papers http://www.bartleby.com/65/go/Gotham.html (1807).
name given to London by Richard Braithwaite in ‘Barnabee's Journal’ 1636: "I came to Gotham, where I saw many who were fools, if not all." Lat., Veni Gotham, ubi multos, Si non omnes, vidi stultos. 'Barnabae Itinerarium (1636)'.
A village in Nottinghamshire, England