Letterhead Generator
Your letterhead as a PDF, ready to write on
Company details at the top and a footer for registration numbers, in 24 designs. Preview it with a sample letter, then download the letterhead on its own.
Letterhead Generator
Runs in your browser · nothing uploaded01 — How to use Letterhead Generator
02 — Getting good results
03 — Questions
No. The PDF is built in your browser and downloaded directly. Nothing you type, including the sample letter, leaves your device.
Not at present. The letterhead is typographic — name, tagline, address, contact line — which produces a clean and entirely proper result. Image embedding would require upload, sizing and placement controls that this form does not have.
Because the download is the letterhead: the branded page you write or print your letters on. The sample letter in the preview is there so you can see how a real letter will sit on it, and is left out so the page you download is blank and reusable.
Your choice of template and colours is remembered in this browser. The company details are not stored, so they need re-entering each visit.
They are converted to plain equivalents, because the standard PDF fonts cannot encode them and would otherwise refuse to build the document. Accented Latin characters are fine; other scripts become question marks.
04 — More about Letterhead Generator
The parts of a business letter
The layout has been stable for a long time, and the order carries meaning. The letterhead identifies the sender before anything else is read. The recipient block sits at the top left, positioned historically so it shows through a window envelope. The date follows, then any reference the sender needs quoted back. The salutation opens, the body carries the message, and the complimentary close and signature identify who is accountable for it. Deviating from this is not an error exactly, but it signals unfamiliarity, and in correspondence that may be read by a regulator, a court or a counterparty, looking unfamiliar with the form is a cost with no offsetting benefit.
Why letterheads still matter
A letterhead is partly presentation and partly evidence. It establishes who is writing in a form that is hard to produce accidentally, and in many jurisdictions it carries information the law requires to be disclosed — company number, registered office, VAT registration. Email has absorbed most routine correspondence, but formal notices, contractual communications, references and anything likely to be relied on later are still sent as letters, frequently as PDF attachments. The document has to look like a letter for the same reason it has to say the right things: it may be read years later, by someone assessing whether it was sent properly.
Laying out text on a page in code
A word processor handles flow invisibly: text fills the column, wraps, and pushes onto a new page when the current one is full. A PDF library offers none of that. It draws a string at a coordinate, and every one of those behaviours has to be implemented — measure the text in the font that will render it, break lines at word boundaries before the margin, track the vertical position as lines accumulate, and start a new page before the position runs below the bottom margin. Reserving space for the footer means the floor sits above the margin rather than on it, and the signature block gets a minimum-height check of its own, because a signature orphaned onto a page by itself looks like a mistake even though every individual placement was correct.
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