Thomas Schostok & Stefan Claudius, Cape Arcona Type Foundry: «We at the Cape have a wonderful life. Half of the day we are lying at the pool and drinking cocktails and the other half we work on typefaces. We love working on fonts, but love cocktails a little bit more. Everyone will understand, that each hour that we could spare of working on spacing and kerning is of great value and can be invested into “action at pool”. Igino’s iKern was the solution to our problem! iKern did a wonderful job and is surly the proof that machines can take on man made work. We love iKern and the professional results it creates. Before iKern we thought of this part of font production as somehow old-fashioned. You see, human mankind shot rockets to faraway planets; probes land on asteroids and came back to earth, but type designers still doing spacing and kerning by hand. For Cape Arcona, iKern is the NASA of kerning.»
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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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