Dick Dooijes was born in
Amsterdam on May 6, 1909. He began working at
Lettergieterij Amsterdam (the Amsterdam Type Foundry) in 1926 as
S.H. de Roos's assistant and pupil. He worked with de Roos on the design of the typefaces
Nobel and Egmont. In 1940, Dooijes succeeded de Roos as artistic director of Lettergieterij Amsterdam. Dooijes' first solo typeface design was a Hebrew alphabet, which he could not read, created for Palestinian printing companies. After his retirement, he took up writing, publishing an autobiography titled
Mijn leven met letters (My Life with Letters) and a book about Dutch typographers. He died on June 20, 1998, in
Baarn. ==References==