Font Family

Meridien
Meridien Roman      Meridien Italic      Meridien Medium      Meridien Medium Italic      Meridien Bold      Meridien Bold Italic

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Design Credits

First seen on MyFonts: September 14th, 2000
Designed by: Adrian Frutiger
Designed when: 1957
Contained in Categories: Legible, Transitional
Design owned by: Linotype
MyFonts Keywords: book text, clean, fashionable, inscribed, Latin, legible, magazine, mannered, mannerist, modern, news text, serif, transitional

Meridien

Undertaken in 1957 for Deberny & Peignot, Adrian Frutiger’s Meridien develops the Latin form into a classical text face of brilliant texture. Effective distribution of this exceptional face has been limited to France. Monotype Apollo can be seen as the Monotype version of this design; Sofratype’s Opera is a newstext version.

Meridien

Frutiger based the design for his Meridien on the 16th century characters of Jenson, saying: “As I designed Meridien, I wanted to avoid stiffness in the forms - I thought they should have a more natural line and flow. My main consideration was in creating a font which was both extremely legible and aesthetically pleasing.” Meridien is proof of Frutiger’s success in his endeavor.

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