“A lot of inspiration comes from the unknown and the naive approach to discover things.” We recently interviewed Berlin-based type and book designer Verena Gerlach to delve a bit deeper to find out more about the face behind the fonts, her influences, and her design process.

David Sudweeks interviews Marina Chaccur on the impossible task of separating lettering from its related disciplines, and how her work has changed since the lettering boom.

David Sudweeks interviews Martina Flor on establishing herself as a lettering artist, and on which experiences led to her success so far.

David Sudweeks interviews Emily Conners, who leapt head first into type design in 2011, learning both the craft and the trade at the same time. Her work, including the huge hit Bombshell Pro is in every wedding planner’s font menu, itself an invention that inspired its own subgenre of loose imitations. Emily is the original.

David Sudweeks interviews French type and graphic designer Roxane Gataud on the creative process of the award-winning typeface Bely as well as how graphic design and type design fit together in her life—and she reveals her first type crush. This interview took place during TypeCon 2016 in Seattle, where Roxane received the Society of Typographic Aficionados’ Catalyst Award.