Zine by MATRATYPE (Pooja Saxena)
This zine is the seventh in a series that celebrates the diversity of letterforms seen in public spaces around India. It is a special issue focusing on gravestone lettering from cemeteries in Kolkata, Delhi and Lucknow.
The India Street Lettering project records the vibrant signage of India’s streets. Like turns of a kaleidoscope, these signs illuminate patterns—established and unexpected—to expand our understanding of typographic forms and styles, and conventions for their use.
About the author:
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.
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Azulejos of Panjim (№1)
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Cinemas of Lucknow (№4)
Cinemas of Hyderabad (№5)
