This is a message to type designers. Spacing and kerning is often a tedious job and can sometimes take up to 60% of the font development process. It can be frustrating because it requires your time (and time is never enough) and your energy: the most precious resources blocked on a repetitive task when new designs, that could become new fonts, are waiting and new projects have to be conceived. iKern is the result of years of research on autospacing and autokerning and it can produce high quality spacing and kerning in short time. It’s proposed to you as an help to optimize your workflow moving your resources towards the “creative” side.

iKern is not on sale but is offered as a service. I’m the first to understand that it’s not the preferred solution but I dare to offer it because I’m sure that the type designer doesn’t lose control on the font if someone else does the metrics. Not only. There are chances that the overall experience could be very satisfying. All the general description of iKern I propose is aimed at this. You can read some testimonies, but in the end your eyes have to be your criterion so there are fonts to be tested. iKern has been developed with the Fell Types in mind so take a look at them. More standard fonts are downloadablehere. They’re from the Liberation family. You will also find, through these pages, other links to fonts prepared using iKern. Hope you’ll follow them.