Matra Type is the independent design and research practice of award-winning 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 a 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 designs and engineers fonts, as well as researches and writes. Most recently, she was lead designer for Playpen Sans Devanagari (2025) and Bree Devanagari (2026). She is overseeing the Indic expansion of Futura®100, leading the design of Devanagari, Gujarati and Gurmukhi script families. 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. This work was expanded to take the shape of the book, Primarium: Handwriting education across cultures and continents (2025), which she edited with José Scaglione.
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.
Pooja is an Alphabette, and works between New Delhi and Brussels.
