Alja Herlah

Alja Herlah designs original typefaces and creates distinctive visual identities with an emphasis on custom typography. After her studies she trained further at the type foundries Atlas Fonts in Berlin and Dalton Maag in London.

She is a co-founder of the type foundry Type Salon and founder of the niche foundry Dotless Type. For almost a decade she has run the Tipo Brda association, organising typography talks and week-long workshops in calligraphy, lettering and type design. Her work has received numerous Slovenian and international awards.