Franko Luin (6 April 1941 in
Trieste
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,
Italy
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– 15 September 2005 in
Tyresö,
Sweden
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) was a
Swedish type designer of
Slovene origin. He studied graphic arts at
Grafiska Institutet in Stockholm, where he graduated in 1967. A
graphic design
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er at the telecom company
Ericsson
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(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
Esperanto (, ) is the world's most widely spoken Constructed language, constructed international auxiliary language. Created by L. L. Zamenhof in 1887 to be 'the International Language' (), it is intended to be a universal second language for ...
, 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 digitized many 19th and 20th century works by Slovene classical authors and distributed them on his homepage ''Beseda'' ("Word").
Beseda
website
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
External links
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1941 births
2005 deaths
Swedish graphic designers
Swedish typographers and type designers
Swedish Esperantists
Translators to Esperanto
Artists from Trieste
Italian Slovenes
Slovenian designers
Slovenian graphic designers
Slovenian typographers and type designers
20th-century Swedish translators
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