Thomas Mettendorf

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Thomas Mettendorf Aka Thomas Schnäbele (b. Karlsruhe, Germany, 1966). Designer of the GFToaster family and the GF CafeRetro family at Garagefonts in 1998. He also designed Derivat (1998, a rub-down letter font), Tipi (1998: grunge), Dualis, Mobilette (1999), Five Link Chain (1999), Fonicons (dingbats, 2000), Fono (2000, techno family, which includes unicase weights), Modus (2001), Metroflex (2003-2004, Garagefonts: based on geometric principles and conceived as an "experimental vision!" for Fritz Lang's classic film, Metropolis). At Linotype, he designed Linotype Method (1997) and Linotype InkyScript (1997). In 2006, at Volcano Type, he designed Copy, a sans family consisting of Copy Regular, Copy Bold, Copy Italic, CopyCut Regular, CopyCut Bold, CopyCut Italic, CopySemiGrotesk Regular, CopySemiGrotesk Bold, CopySemiGrotesk Italic. This family has the look and feel of typewriter types. In 2007, he decided to quit type and graphic design and went into music. FontShop link. Klingspor link. Volcano Type link. Linotype link. FontShop link.	EXTERNAL LINKS Thomas Mettendorf [Designer info] Monotype link Dafont page Klingspor Museum page MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Dingbats (original) ⦿ Handwriting fonts ⦿ Commercial fonts (small outfits) ⦿ German type scene ⦿ Unicase type design ⦿ Typewriter fonts ⦿ Sites with only a few free fonts ⦿