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.
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, and is lead designer for the upcoming Bree Devanagari. Most recently, she was co-editor and one of the lead researchers for Primarium, a groundbreaking educational effort to document different models of handwriting that are taught to primary school students around the world.
Pooja is a member of Alphabettes.
