Mark van Bronkhorst, MVB Fonts: «Igino handled the spacing and kerning of the Sweet® Sans familiy for me. His iKern service meant that I could focus on design. There was a bit of back-and-forth to get settings just right, a process I found positive, as I could guide how the spacing and kerning were applied. Once the settings were in order, large character sets fell into place quickly. His method applies remarkably consistent sidebearings (not just kerning). Instead of manually applying sidebearings, then kerning by hand for days on end, one gets to a place that’s 90-percent-something “done”, the focus shifted from doing drudgery to making adjustments. I’ve always felt that font metrics could be automated, particularly with fairly regular typefaces. Finally someone has figured out how to get it right. Igino works fast, and I appreciate that his fees are affordable.»
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I'm Igino Marini. I was born in 1964. I attended the high school specializing in classical studies: so before handling the polytonic greek I learned to translate it! Then I graduated in Civil Engineering. In 2000 I became more involved in typography digitizing the Fell Types. Realizing that I would have never wanted to devote myself to the their letterfitting I started since 2002 to deal with spacing and kerning in an engineered way. That's how the iKern project started. In 2010, after a career in building and industrial engineering, I finally became a full-time type engineer. I abandoned columns and beams, trajectories of robots or energy flows; but I never ceased to translate reality into numbers.
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