Verena Gerlach
Verena Gerlach is a type designer, typographer, educator, and book designer based in Berlin. She studied graphic design at Kunsthochschule Weißensee, where type and typography were a central focus. She has been designing typefaces since the mid-1990s and founded her own studio for graphic design, type design, and typography in 1998. Since 2006 she is also working as a freelance book designer for renowned art publishers, museums and artists.
She is best known for the FF Karbid type family, an interpretation of German storefront lettering from the early 1900s. The typeface draws on Berlin lettering and street finds that Gerlach has been photographing since the early 1990s. She documented the creation of the typeface in her book Karbid – From Lettering to Type Design, published in 2013. Her other typefaces include FF Chambers Sans, FF City Street Types, and FF Sizmo.
Alongside designing corporate fonts for international companies and producing typography for contemporary artists, Gerlach has been teaching type design and typography since 2003. She gives lectures and workshops around the world.
