Matra मात्रा Type foundry — est. 2019

Latin & DevanagariSince 2019Bengaluru

Every letter hangs from a line.

In Devanagari that line is called the मात्रा — the measure. We draw type for both scripts so they can share one.

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02 — The foundry

A typeface is a set of decisions about rhythm that has to survive being set badly, at the wrong size, by someone in a hurry. We draw for that case, not for the specimen.

Retail

Six families, all with a variable weight and width axis, licensed for desktop, web and application use.

Custom

Bespoke families and script extensions — most often adding Devanagari to a Latin a brand already owns.

Consulting

Type systems, licensing audits, and getting the shirorekha to line up with a Latin baseline grid without either script losing.

03 — The case

Pick one up.

Before type was a file it was a drawer of metal sorts, sitting in a case, sorted by how often you needed them. Drag one. Throw it.

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04 — Catalogue

Six families

Every family below is a real, open-source typeface, credited to the people who actually drew it. Scroll sideways.

  • 01

    Aa Gg Rk

    Anek Latin

    Ek Type · variable wght + wdth

    Drawn as one arm of a nine-script superfamily, which is why its Devanagari sibling sits on it without a fight.

  • 02

    अ क म र

    Anek Devanagari

    Ek Type · variable wght + wdth

    A shirorekha that thickens with weight rather than staying a fixed hairline — the detail most Latin-first families miss.

  • 03

    Aa Gg Rk

    Bricolage Grotesque

    Mathieu Triay · variable opsz + wdth + wght

    An optical-size axis, so the display cut is genuinely a different drawing rather than the text cut set larger.

  • 04

    Aa Gg Rk

    Fraunces

    Phaedra Charles & Flavia Zimbardi · SOFT + WONK

    Two axes nobody else ships: how soft the terminals are, and how far the italic is allowed to misbehave.

  • 05

    Aa Gg Rk

    Big Shoulders

    Patric King · variable wght

    Condensed to the point of being a grid of verticals. Set it at 200px or do not set it at all.

  • 06

    Aa Gg Rk

    Space Mono

    Colophon Foundry · 400 / 700

    The one fixed-width family we stock, and the only one here without an axis to drag. Some drawings are finished.

05 — Tester

Set something.

Type into the line. Drag the axes. Both scripts run the same weight and width range, which is the only reason a bilingual setting can ever look like one voice.

Handgloves

06 — Contact

Licence, or commission.