Meridien是于1950年代中期开发的，并由法国铸造厂Deberny＆Peignot于1957年发布。在研究了16世纪的字体之后，瑞士设计师Adrian Frutiger受到启发，创作了一个完全没有垂直笔画的字母表，他希望以该字体设置的文本在读者阅读的时候有种在森林中漫步的感觉。Frutiger设计了100多种字体，但他认为Meridien是最好的一款。 Meridien略微展开的主干（stem），三角形的衬线，使其既尖锐、优雅、迷人，而又给人以美感；很像森林。当您想要在书籍文本中创建一种独特的图形表达时，请使用罗马字重。对于海报及网站，斜体或粗体，甚至是全部设置为大写的罗马字重都能给人一种庄重肃穆的印象。

Meridien was developed in the mid-1950s, and released by the French foundry Deberny & Peignot in 1957. After studying a typeface from the sixteenth century, the Swiss designer Adrian Frutiger was inspired to create an alphabet without any completely straight strokes, and he hoped the reader of a text set in this typeface would feel as though wandering through a forest. The designer of more than 100 typefaces, Frutiger considers Meridien to be his best. With its slightly flared stems and triangular shaped serifs, Meridien is at once sharp, graceful, arresting, and sensuous; much like a forest. Use the roman when you want to create a distinctive graphic expression in book text. For posters and websites, the italic or the bold weights or even the roman set in all caps will give an impression of quiet dignity.