Igino Marini Igino Marini often talks about iKern with letter-fitting service customers. It’s easy, he says, because words are accompanied by facts: the fonts. And facts are worth more than words.
These discussions, however, take place in a well-defined context. The client accepts a different way of working and is more interested in the results than in the philosophy of the system that delivers those results.
Outside this context, talking about iKern often becomes a vague or even ideological discourse because it’s a system whose code is not public. And it’s the result of an entirely engineering-centered approach to provide a solution to a markedly design-driven problem.
With this presentation, Marini aims to provide some insights into iKern, why it’s developed the way it is, its history, and maybe even its future.