In 1994, Visigothic was publicly released through FontHaus under the name Proxima Sans. The result was a hybrid a face combining modern, even-width proportions with a somewhat geometric appearance. I wanted the general proportions and stroke contrast of Helvetica or Akzidenz Grotesk, but with construction and details borrowed variously from Futura, Kabel, the ATF gothics (Copperplate Gothic, News Gothic, Franklin Gothic, etc.) and the U.S. Some existing faces influenced the look of Visigothic.
While he liked the font, he wanted to go for a plainer, more geometric approach, so he built upon Zanzibar to create a new font called Visigothic. In 1991, Simonson was working as an art director for the magazine Business Ethics, in which he used Gill Sans.
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