An award-winning typeface designer, lettering artist and typographer, Pooja Saxena divides her time between being a team member at TypeTogether, and her own independent practice, Matra Type.
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 a newsletter about type and design curiosities called I Spy with my Typographic Eye. She is the author of the upcoming book, India Street Lettering: A Journey through Typographic Craft & Culture, published by Blaft Publications (December 2025).
Pooja studied communication design at the National Institute of Fashion Technology, New Delhi (India), followed by typeface design at the University of Reading (United Kingdom), where she was supported through the Monotype Imaging Studentship. Afterwards, she interned with the fonts team at Apple. In addition to working with a range of Indian and international clients, she has contributed to libre typeface projects for GNOME, Google Fonts, and the Access to Knowledge programme at the Centre for Internet & Society.
As a senior designer and project manager at TypeTogether, Pooja designs and engineers fonts, as well as researches and writes. She was part of the team that developed Adelle Sans Devanagari (2018), and has assisted in the design of Latin families such as Adelle Mono (2020) and the expanded re-issue of Literata (2020). She is lead designer for Playpen Sans Devanagari (2025), and the upcoming Bree Devanagari.
Pooja was co-editor and one of the lead researchers for Primarium (2024), TypeTogether’s groundbreaking research effort to document different models of handwriting that are taught to primary school students around the world. In 2025, this work was expanded to take the shape of the book, Primarium: Handwriting education across cultures and continents, which she edited with José Scaglione.
Pooja is a member of Alphabettes.
