{{Multiple issues| {{refimprove|date=January 2013}} {{notability|Biographies|date=March 2015}} }} {{Infobox person | name = Franko Luin | image = Franko Luin 2003.png | alt = Franko Luin | caption = Franko Luin | other_names = | occupation = Swedish type designer | birth_place = Trieste, Italy | death_place = Tyresö, Sweden | birth_date = {{start-date|6 April 1941}} | death_date = {{Death-date and age|15 September 2005|6 April 1941}} }}
'''Franko Luin''' (6 April 1941 in Trieste, Italy – 15 September 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'',<ref>''[http://www.esperanto.se/kiosk/ Kiosk]'' list of online newspapers. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071103210608/http://www.esperanto.se/kiosk/ |date=November 3, 2007 }}</ref> 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").<ref>[http://www.omnibus.se/beseda/ Beseda] website {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081219165044/http://www.omnibus.se/beseda/ |date=December 19, 2008 }}</ref>
==Typefaces of his design== {{div col|colwidth=11em}} *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 {{div col end}}
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== External links == *{{commons category-inline|Franko Luin}}
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