Pooja Saxena

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Pooja Saxena Indian graduate of New Delhi's National Institute of Fashion Technology and the MATD program at the University of Reading in 2012 who was born in New Delhi, lived in Bangalore and Hyderabad, and is now back in New Delhi. Pooja's graduation typeface is Cawnpore (2012), a Latin / Devanagari multi-script family designed for readability in small print. Fontstructor who made these typefaces in 2011: Picadilly Circus (dot matrix), Rise of the Cellphone (cellphone dings), Depot (dot matrix), Depot Devanagari, Type in Transit I (dot matrix), Electricals Ltd, Giovanni Ostaus, Nip And Tuck, Delhi Metro Sans II (dot matrix face), and Delhi Metro Serif. Pooja added many dot matrix style stitching fonts in 2011: Sajou I, II and III, Lettering For Stitchers I through X. These are digitizations of embroidery patterns from Elsie Svennas' book A Handbook of Lettering for Stitchers. Chaukor (2009) is an experimental Devanagari face. In 2014, she developed Cambay (Google Web Fonts; see also GitHub and Open Font Library). Cambay is a libre Devanagari sans typeface family designed to match the Latin font Cantarell (Dave Crossland, 2009). Still in 2014, she created the Gujarati / Latin typeface Farsan (free at Google Fonts; Github link). In 2017, Pooja joined Type Together. Type Together interview, where we learn that she regrets not having studied mathematics. It's never too late, Pooja! In 2021, she was part of the development of Belarius, a three-axis variable family that shifts from sans to slab serif, from condensed to expanded widths, and includes every possibility in between. Published by Type Together in 2021, it was developed under the guidance of Veronika Burian and José Scaglione, with type design by Azza Alameddine and Pooja Saxena, and additional kerning and engineering help from Radek Sidun, Joancarles Casasin and Irene Vlachou. Still in 2021 at Type Together, she started work on Bree Devanagari.	EXTERNAL LINKS Pooja Saxena MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS FontStruct fonts ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Dingbats (original) ⦿ Pixel/bitmap fonts ⦿ Indic language fonts ⦿ Type design in India ⦿ Typefaces for stitching ⦿ Experimental type ⦿ Gujarati fonts ⦿ Variable fonts ⦿