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Dooijes' first solo typeface design was a Hebrew alphabet, which he could not read, created for Palestinian printing companies. With the outbreak of the Second World War, however, he was unable to contact potential clients and production on the typeface was abandoned. After the war, he completed
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in 1968 and remained in the position until 1974. After his retirement, he took up writing, publishing an autobiography titled
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and Egmont. In 1940, Dooijes succeeded de Roos as artistic director of Lettergieterij Amsterdam.
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in the 1950s and 1960s, particularly on shopfronts and packaging. In 1959 Dooijes completed the
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Mercator, his first complete type family, which shared similarities with
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Amsterdam
Baarn
Dutch
Typeface designer
typeface designer
Amsterdam Type Foundry
Gerrit Rietveld Academie
Amsterdam
Lettergieterij Amsterdam
S.H. de Roos
Nobel
Stefan Schlesinger
nl
display typeface
sans-serif
Helvetica
Univers
serif
Gerrit Rietveld Academie
Baarn


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