Franko Luin

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Franko Luin, Swedish type designer of Slovene origin. Born April 6, 1941 in Trieste, Italy, died September 15, 2005 in Tyresö, Sweden. Studied graphic arts at Grafiska Institutet in Stockholm, where he graduated in 1967. 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, which had an enormous link list of online newspapers. In his later years, he collected and digitalized many 19th century works by mildly obscure authors and distributed them on his homepage.

Although Franko Luin never officially was a Slovene citizen, he was proud of his roots and kept close contact with his family and Slovene authors.

[edit] 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

[edit] links

• http://web.archive.org/web/20050208060345/http://www.luin.se/
• http://www.omnibus.se/lino/more.html Autobiography