Bram de Does: Type designer

Bram de Does, born in Amsterdam in 1934, is a graphic and type designer. De Does studied at the Amsterdamse Grafische School in the 1950′s. He came into contact with the printing trade at an early age, as his father had a printing office in the east of Amsterdam.

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From 1958 to 1988 he worked, with several intervals, at Joh. Enschedé, a printing office in Haarlem. He worked there primarily as a book designer. De Does was asked by his employer to design a typeface, which was to become Trinité.

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