A whole FOUR of our typefaces were selected as 'Typefaces of 2011' by typographica.org.

Thank you to Stefan Hattenbach, Mark Simonson, Jügen Siebert and the lovely Marian Bantjes. Antwerp: 5 weights + Italics, A2 Beckett: 6 weights, Dane: 6 weights, Outsiders: 7 weights + Italics. All fonts have extended character sets.


Our typefaces

are all featured in Type Navigator – The Independent Foundries Handbook
by Jan Middendorp & TwoPoints.net

September 10, 2011: Kubel is showing his Antwerp typeface(s)*

Creative Review TOP FIVE fonts
February 2011: Our font Vogue
Floral was selected as Number 2.




About A2's Type design — By John walters, Eye No. 76

A2’s bespoke type design is mainly
the responsibility of Henrik Kubel,
though every typeface is developed
and approved by both partners.
Kubel is self-taught, making his
first typefaces while studying at Denmark’s Design School from
1992-97. Though he had drawn
letters since he was twelve, it was
the discovery of Fontographer that
sparked his passion for type design.
‘At that time there were no schools that were teaching type design,’ says
Kubel. ‘Now we have Reading, and
the courses in Holland. But we were
young, and embracing everything!
It was a way of claiming your
identity.’ His immersion in computer
design led him to stop drawing by hand for a while but he regained
his drawing skills back while at the Royal College in 1998. ‘The tools
that every type designer has now
are just amazing.

Continue reading...



Paul Shaw picks his 5 favourite
fonts from our collection


The 15 fonts cover a wide range
of styles from 19th-century grots
to delicate didones. There's even
a set of fleurons and a typewriter
font named A2 Flowers and A2
Typewriter, respectively—what else
are you going to call them? The
former is an odd mix of decorative
ornaments reminiscent of the
asterisks and snowflakes of ITC
Zapf Dingbats, Art Deco numerals,
Bodoni numerals, pointing fists and
calligraphic squiggles. The latter
is based on an Olivetti Lettera 22
typewriter face. The sans serifs
include Grot 10, Klampenborg,
Battersea, CWM, and Aveny-T, while
the serif faces include CPH Tram
(essentially a sans with tiny spur
serifs as in Copperplate Gothic),
A2 Impacto (a slab serif), FM
(a chamfered slab serif), Monday
(a transitional design in the English
vernacular manner) and Vogue
Floral (a slightly curly modern
face)... Read more



A2-TYPE is selected as part
of Top 10 Typographic Events
of 2010


Recently, I profiled the new type
foundry A2-Type, a venture of
Henrik Kubel and Scott Williams
of the design firm A2/SW/HK on
this site. Since then, they have teamed up with Playtype.com
to release more than 30 more fonts.
Its debut is the strongest of the
year... Read more plus the rest
of the top 10.