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ABOUT

UORG [Frank Heine]

Born in 1964, Frank Heine died in Stuttgart in 2003. Heine established UORG in Stuttgart in 1992. UORG was essentially a one-person outfit. Frank also released his fonts through Emigre, FontHaus, FontShop and [T26]. Author of Frank Heine: Type &c (Gmeiner Verlag, 2003).

Klingspor link. FontShop link.

Frank Heine's typefaces:

• At [T-26]: Amplifier (1994), IndecisionBasic, Feltrinelli, Intolerance, Kracklite, Opsmarckt (1996, medieval simulation script, including borders), Opsmarckt-Borders (1996), WholeLittleUniverse, Divine.
• In FUSE 15 (1996), he did Determination.
• At Emigre, he created the grungy Motion (1992), his script family Dalliance (2001), Tribute (2003, a creative revival of a 1565 typeface by Guyot), his curly Remedy (1991) family.
• His list of fonts also includes Coolage Bold, Desolation, Vespasian, and Schablone (for Factory, 1993). It is unclear if he also designed Contrivance (1993), a neat curly handwriting font.

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