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Channel: iKern: type metrics and engineering – spacing (autospacing) and kerning (autokerning) for type designers
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Thomas Schostok & Stefan Claudius

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...

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Livius Dietzel

Livius Dietzel, Studio Livius Dietzel: «Igino’s iKern is a programme, but it doesn’t feel like one. The rhythm of the kerned fonts look like they were carefully done by hand. Thanks also for the...

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Philip Bouwsma

Philip Bouwsma, Canada Type: «Calligraphers are ever concerned about marrying math and calligraphy. Igino Marini’s way of doing things seems to do just that in a very good way. His work on my Lorenzo...

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Karsten Luecke

Karsten Luecke, Karsten Luecke Type Foundry: «One thing that repeatedly strikes me is a rather abstract discussion, and vehement rejection, of automatic spacing. Whether spacing is done manually or...

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Brian Jaramillo

Brian Jaramillo, type designer, Veer, MyFonts, co-founder of LetterCult.com: «I feel like I was fortunate to discover Igino’s service. I’ve sent him more than a dozen fonts for spacing and kerning and...

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Seminar on Letterfitting & iKern at POLI.design Milan

In September I gave a seminar on “Letterfitting & iKern” during the 5th edition of the Corso di Alta Formazione in Type Design (Advanced Course in Type Design) – at the Politecnico di Milano,...

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Two 2010 projects

In 2010 I collaborated several times with Luciano Perondi for projects of particular interest. One is the new typeface designed for Voland, a nonconformist publishing company founded in Rome in 1995....

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Henrik Kubel

Henrik Kubel, A2-TYPE: «Igino’s iKern service enabled us to finish and release a large amount of faces to a high standard: FM, Maximum, Grot10, Outsiders, Typewriter, Battersea, Klampenborg, Kunstuff,...

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Angus R. Shamal

Angus R. Shamal, ARS Type: «Most people who use high quality typefaces in their profession choose them because they know they can rely on them to perform effortlessly and consistently well in the...

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Mark van Bronkhorst

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...

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iKern presentation in Berlin

Last October I was in Berlin to meet some friends and talk about fonts. I had the opportunity to make a presentation of my work. A way to see in perspective a 13 years long journey and some new...

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