Interactive Online Letterhead Maker & Editor

How the letterhead editor works

The editor is a single page with your letterhead on the right and seven panels on the left: Templates, Details, Logo, Style, Layout, Extras and Saved. Nothing is staged or queued — every change you make in a panel is drawn on the sheet immediately, at the proportions it will print at. There is no account to create and no step where you are asked to pay before downloading.

Starting from a template, or not

The Templates panel holds 294 designs grouped into 10 named categories. Picking one replaces the layout, colours and type but keeps whatever company details you have already typed, so you can audition several designs against your own name and address rather than against placeholder text. If none of them is close enough, start from the default sheet and build up: the templates are only presets of the same controls you have anyway.

Underneath the templates sit 10 header architectures, and they matter more than colour does. A stacked header puts the name above the contact line and reads traditional. A split header sets the name left and contact details right, which suits wide company names. A banner lays a solid colour band across the top — striking on screen, and the one to think twice about if you print in volume, since it covers a lot of paper in ink. Masthead, monogram, sidebar, corner, boxed and emblem each change where the eye lands first.

Paper sizes and margins

Five sizes are available, and switching between them reflows the design rather than scaling a picture of it:

Margins are set in millimetres in the Layout panel, separately for top, sides and bottom. The top margin is the one worth attention: it has to clear your header artwork, so a tall logo or a banner needs more room than a single line of text. If the letter will be filed in a ring binder, keep the left margin generous enough to survive the hole punch. Full dimension tables for every size are on the specs page.

Type, colour and the details panel

14 type families are available, and six of them are offered as ready-made pairings for anyone who would rather not choose twice. The pairing logic is simple enough to apply yourself: a serif with some personality for the name, something plain and legible for the contact line and body. Heading and body sizes are adjustable independently, which is how you stop a long company name from wrapping awkwardly.

The Details panel holds the content itself — name, tagline, address, phone, email, website — plus optional tax ID and registration number fields that render in the footer. Those two are off by default because most letters do not need them, but registered companies in many jurisdictions do. Extras adds a signature line, a monogram mark built from your initials, social handles, and background patterns. Logos upload in the Logo panel as PNG, JPG or SVG, with width and offset controls for nudging them into place.

What each export format is for

Five formats come out of the same design, and they are not interchangeable:

• PDF — the one to send or hand to a printer. Text stays as real text, so it is selectable and searchable rather than a flat image, and the page is built at the paper size you chose. Print at 100% or “Actual size”; letting the print dialog “fit to page” is what silently shrinks margins.
• PNG and JPG — rasterised at 3.125× the on-screen canvas, which works out to 300 DPI, the resolution commercial printers usually ask for. PNG when you need a clean edge or transparency, JPG when file size matters more.
• SVG — vector, so it scales to any size without softening. This is the format to hand to a designer, or to open in other vector software.
• Word (.docx) — a real Word document, covered below.

How the Word and Google Docs export works

The .docx export is a genuine Word document, not a picture of one dropped into a page. Your name, tagline and contact line are written into the document’s real header section, the footer text into its footer, and the letter body into editable paragraphs. The page size and margins are set to match what you picked here, and your fonts and colours carry across. You can open it, type your letter, and the header repeats on every page the way Word headers are supposed to.

That editability costs some fidelity, and it is worth being plain about where. Word rebuilds the design out of paragraphs, so decorative borders, background patterns and the more structural header architectures do not survive the trip. Logos come across as PNG or JPG; an SVG logo is skipped, so upload a raster version if you need one in the .docx. If the design matters more than the editing, export the PDF instead — nothing is lost there.

For Google Docs, the usual route is the header image rather than the .docx: export a PNG, then in Google Docs open Insert → Header, insert the image, and set its text wrapping to sit behind the text. The Word & Docs helper in the editor walks through both paths. The full Word walkthrough has the step-by-step version with the settings that trip people up.

Where your design actually goes

Everything here runs in your browser. The sheet is drawn by your own machine, the exports are generated on it, and your logo is read straight from the file picker into the page — it is never uploaded, because there is nowhere to upload it to. Saving a design from the Saved panel writes it to your browser’s local storage, which means it is on that device and that browser only: it survives a refresh, and it will not follow you to another computer. Clearing site data clears your saved designs with it, so export anything you want to keep.

The practical consequence is that there is no account, no email to hand over, and no copy of your company details sitting on a server somewhere. It also means nobody can recover a design for you if you lose it.

Not sure a letterhead is what you need? What a letterhead is covers the difference between one and a plain document header, and the template library is the fastest way in if you would rather start from a finished design. Paper sizes shown above in full: A4 International, US Letter, US Legal, A5 Small Note, Executive Memo.