Letterhead Template

Letterhead is the plainest thing a business prints and the one that says the most: a letter on plain paper is a note, a letter on your paper is from the business. Most small businesses never get around to it, because the print shop wants an order of five hundred and a print-ready file the business cannot make. This is the file. Your name set in a real serif at the top, your tagline under it, the address and contact at the right, a rule, a clean page, and a footer line, printed from the home printer one sheet at a time, or kept as a PDF to write letters on.

The header sits at the left or centered, as a setting: left is the letterhead of a studio, centered is the letterhead of a practice. The logo goes above the name if you have one, and if you do not, a drawn mark carries your initial so the corner is never empty. A tagline is optional; leave it blank and the name stands alone.

The page itself is blank on purpose, because a letter needs room. A switch adds faint lines for the letter written by hand, at a pen's pitch, and they print light so the words sit on them rather than under them. The footer carries the business name and the website, small, under a thin rule in the accent color.

Six color themes, one of them light ink for the sheet you print by the ream. Every line has a limit the customizer holds you to, so the name never runs into the address and the address never runs into the margin.

Print it at 100%, not fit to page. Letterhead deserves better than copier paper: a 28 lb or 32 lb bond, about 105 to 120 gsm, feels like stationery and still goes through a home printer. The free version is this design with the sample business and a small credit line at the foot. The paid version carries your business, your logo, your lines and your footer, drops the credit line, and comes back in Letter and A4 from one purchase, with a link that works for a year.