Franko Luin

Franko Luin
Franko Luin
Born	April 6, 1941 Trieste, Italy
Died	September 15, 2005 (aged 64) Tyresö, Sweden
Occupation	Swedish type designer

Franko Luin (April 6, 1941 in Trieste, Italy – September 15, 2005 in Tyresö, Sweden) was a Swedish type designer of Slovene origin. He studied graphic arts at Grafiska Institutet in Stockholm, where he graduated in 1967. A graphic designer at the telecom company Ericsson (1967–1989), He started his own design shop Omnibus Typografi in 1989.

Franko Luin had a keen interest in languages, particularly the international auxiliary language Esperanto, and was for many years president of the Swedish Esperanto association SEF. He wrote poems, translated songs into Esperanto and organized a well renowned homepage, the Kiosk,^[1] which had an enormous link list of online newspapers. In his later years, he collected and digitized many 19th and 20th century works by Slovene classical authors and distributed them on his homepage Beseda ("Word").^[2]

Typefaces of his design

Ad Hoc Baskerville Classico Birka Bodoni Classico Carniola Caslon Classico Cirkus Devin Dialog Edinost Emona Esperanto Fortuna Garamond Classico Goudy Modern 94 Goudy Village Griffo Classico Humana Inko Isolde Jenson Classico Jesper Jonatan Kalix Kasper

Kis Classico Luma Manuskript Marco Polo Maskot Memento Miramar Norma Nyfors Odense Odense Neon Omnibus Pax Pax #2 Persona Ragnar Res Publica Rustika Saga Semper Stockholm Runt Transport Valdemar Vega antikva Zip 2000

Notes

1. Kiosk list of online newspapers. Archived November 3, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
2. Beseda website Archived December 19, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.

External links

• Media related to Franko Luin at Wikimedia Commons