Matra Type is the design and research practice of typeface designer, lettering artist and typographer, Pooja Saxena. Pooja divides her time between Matra Type and TypeTogether.
At Matra Type, her work focuses on design in and for Indic scripts, notably Devanagari, and studying typographic visual languages that emerge in India. She is a devoted collector of ephemera and chronicler of street lettering, and writes an occasional newsletter about type and design curiosities called I Spy with my Typographic Eye. She is the author of India Street Lettering: A Journey through Typographic Craft & Culture (2026), published by Blaft Publications.
As a senior designer and project manager at TypeTogether, Pooja most recently led the design for Playpen Sans Devanagari (2025) and Bree Devanagari (2026). She is overseeing the Indic expansion of Futura®100, designing the Devanagari, Gujarati and Gurmukhi script families herself. Pooja was researcher and co-editor for Primarium (2024), TypeTogether’s groundbreaking research effort to document different handwriting models that are taught to primary school students around the world. This project was expanded to take the shape of the book, Primarium: Handwriting education across cultures and continents (2025), which she co-edited with José Scaglione.
She studied communication design at the National Institute of Fashion Technology, New Delhi (India), followed by typeface design at the University of Reading (United Kingdom), through the support of the Monotype Imaging Studentship. Afterwards, she interned with the fonts team at Apple.
Pooja is a founding member of Alphabettes, and is based between New Delhi and Brussels.
