Matra Type is the design and research practice of typeface and graphic designer Pooja Saxena. Her efforts are centered on design in and for Indic scripts, and the study of typographic visual languages from India. Pooja is also senior typeface designer and Indic scripts expert at TypeTogether. She splits her time between New Delhi and Brussels.

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At Matra Type, her work covers a wide span of projects: from branding to books, and packaging to editorial. Equally adept at script extensions and original typefaces, lettering and typography, the focus is on marrying rich historical sources with contemporary cultural zeitgeist to produce memorable letter-centric designs. Pooja is a devoted collector of old books and ephemera and chronicler of street lettering, and writes a well-regarded newsletter 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 part of her engagement with TypeTogether, Pooja most recently oversaw the expansion of Futura®100 to nine Indic scripts, designing the Devanagari, Gujarati and Gurmukhi script families herself. She was also lead designer for Playpen Sans Devanagari and Bree Devanagari. Pooja was researcher and co-editor for Primarium, 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. She was an intern with the fonts team at Apple, and afterwards worked as an external consultant between 2013–2021.

Pooja is a founding member of Alphabettes, and is based between New Delhi and Brussels.