The Amsterdam Type Foundry ( Dutch : Lettergieterij Amsterdam ) was a type foundry based in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
6-468: The type foundry was established by Nicolaas Tetterode in 1851. It contributed a number of original type designs early in the 20th century, some of which were designed by S. H. de Roos and Dick Dooijes . In the 20th century, only two major typefoundries survived in the Netherlands. In Haarlem , the old typefoundry of Joh. Enschedé was their competitor. In order to divide the market, these firms kept
12-612: A serif , was released in 1969, seven years after he first conceived it. He had become slightly bitter with type design after realizing that he could have earned much more money from some of his designs if he had been a freelancer rather than an employee of the type foundry, as he was not entitled to royalties. He became director of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in 1968 and remained in the position until 1974. After his retirement, he took up writing, publishing an autobiography titled Mijn leven met letters (My Life with Letters) and
18-450: A certain difference in type-height. Amsterdam: 66 + 1/24 point Didot, and Enschedé: 66 - 1/24 point Didot. Enough to prevent the combined use of their type. Eventually, it became a division of Tetterode . On October 1, 2000, Tetterode transferred the rights for all of its typefaces to Linotype . These foundry types were produced by the Type foundry Amsterdam: These designs were produced by
24-667: The Type foundry Amsterdam for photocomposition : Dick Dooijes Dick Dooijes (May 6, 1909 – June 20, 1998) was a Dutch typeface designer . He worked at the Amsterdam Type Foundry for over forty years and directed the Gerrit Rietveld Academie from 1968 to 1974. 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
30-473: 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. With the outbreak of the Second World War, however, he was unable to contact potential clients and production on the typeface was abandoned. After
36-473: The war, he completed Stefan Schlesinger [ nl ] 's designs for Rondo following Schlesinger's death in a concentration camp. Rondo became a popular display typeface in the 1950s and 1960s, particularly on shopfronts and packaging. In 1959 Dooijes completed the sans-serif Mercator, his first complete type family, which shared similarities with Helvetica and Univers . He also designed Contura, released in 1965. Lectura, Dooijes' final typeface,
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