He worked at the Amsterdam Type Foundry for over forty years and directed the Gerrit Rietveld Academie from 1968 to 1974.

In 1940, Dooijes succeeded de Roos as artistic director of Lettergieterij Amsterdam.

[1][3] Dooijes' first solo typeface design was a Hebrew alphabet, which he could not read,[4] created for Palestinian printing companies.

[2] With the outbreak of the Second World War, however, he was unable to contact potential clients and production on the typeface was abandoned.

[3] Lectura, Dooijes' final typeface, a serif, was released in 1969, seven years after he first conceived it.