Rob Keller, Mota Italic: «Ever since meeting Igino in 2007 and seeing iKern work its magic first hand I have been an impressed fan. iKern’s headache-inducingly-complex algorithms assure consistent and even spacing; and the results are always fine-tuned exactly to the designer requests. Its strength and usefulness comes not only from the fine spacing and kerning it creates for thousands of glyphs, but it is flexible in handling special exceptions. For us, it easily accommodated an intricate system of alternates – integrating the hundreds of substitutions seamlessly while respecting the way they function. This agility, and the fact it is fully customizable, means that iKern can adapt to nearly any set of problems or needs. iKern certainly has our recommendation!»
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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. Since 2012 I'm teaching Maths for Design at ISIA Urbino.
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via Matteotti, 25
60027 Osimo (AN)
ITALIA
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