Francis Ramel

Francis Ramel is a graphic & type designer based in Strasbourg, on the French side of the Rhine. He specializes in type design, editorial design and visual identities for cultural fields. He started his career as an editorial designer for Maison Moderne, an independent publishing house in Luxembourg where he designed magazines and brochures. In 2013 he co-founded Nouvelle étiquette, where he co-designed several projects from exhibition catalogues to complete visual identities. In 2014 he joined the ANRT, Atelier Nacional de Recherche Typographique (Nancy, FR) where he focused on the early medieval musical notations. In 2017 the research was funded by the French National Center for Visual Arts. Carolinéale, the resulting typeface of that project was published by PampaType. Francis is a contributing type designer at PampaType. Since 2016 he’s been helping to expand the character sets of the foundry’s catalogue. In collaboration with Alejandro and within Nouvelle étiquette, Francis also designed a custom type family for the Cathedral of Metz, as part of a public commission from the French Ministry of Culture. Francis continues his graphic design activity now through ramel·luzoir, a contemporary art and graphic studio ran together with Julie Luzoir.