Letterhead Generator
Design a professional letterhead, logo, contact details, QR code and social icons, framing blank space for your actual letter. Fully usable on mobile.
Falls back to a standard font in the PDF if the file can't be embedded.
How to Use the Letterhead Generator
From a blank page to a print-ready letterhead in minutes. Fully usable on mobile.
Every letterhead is built inside your own browser. No account, no tracking, nothing ever uploaded.
Letterhead Generator, Free and Online
A letterhead generator builds professional business stationery, your company name, logo, and contact details, formatted correctly and ready to attach to any letter, invoice, or proposal you send. This one includes 16 templates across four color families and four layouts, a QR code, social icons, and exports to PDF, PNG, print, and, in Pro mode, a digital signature, watermark, custom fonts, and 300 DPI export.
Most people only think about their letterhead the moment they need one, sending an official letter, a formal proposal, an invoice to a new client, and discover that Word's built in templates look dated or that a hastily made version undercuts everything else about how the business presents itself. This letterhead generator is built to close that gap quickly. Pick a layout, drop in your logo, fill in your contact details, and the tool lays everything out correctly, leaving the right amount of blank space in the middle for the actual letter to go. A live preview updates as you type, so what you see is exactly what downloads. Pro mode adds a second logo for the footer, a second QR code, a typed or uploaded signature block, a watermark for drafts, a background image, and a small table for line items, useful for anything that blends a letter with an informal invoice.
Everything past those three is optional polish, a tagline, a QR code, social handles. Get those three right first and the rest is decoration, not substance.
1Simple vs Pro, What Each Mode Includes
| Feature | Simple Mode | Pro Mode (Free) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 template, logo, contact details, QR code, social icons | Included | Included |
| PDF, PNG, and Print export | Included | Included |
| All 16 templates, custom colors and fonts | Not included | Included |
| Digital signature, watermark, background image | Not included | Included |
| Second logo, second QR code, body table | Not included | Included |
| 300 DPI PNG and SVG export | Not included | Included |
2Layout Styles, Quick Reference
The mistake that undercuts most self made letterheads isn't a bad logo or an ugly font, it's leaving too little breathing room for the actual letter. A letterhead's job is to frame a document, not fill it, so a header and footer that together eat more than a fifth of the page start to feel cramped once real paragraphs go in between them. Every template here reserves that space on purpose, the body area is calculated from the page size, not guessed at.
3Where the Modern Letterhead Actually Came From
The letterhead as we know it, a printed header with a company's identity sitting above blank space for a letter, is younger than most business customs. Its direct ancestor is the billhead, a printed slip from the 17th and 18th centuries whose main job was to open with the words "bought of" followed by an itemized bill. According to design historian David Jury's research into early business stationery, it was only from around 1820 that tradesmen began wanting genuinely all purpose stationery, paper that could serve as a letter as well as an invoice or a statement, rather than separate printed forms for each. The billhead gradually shed its "bought of" opening and became a letterhead in its own right, a shift that finished taking hold once mid-19th century postal reform changed mailing costs from being based on the number of sheets sent to the weight of the envelope, making regular business correspondence on dedicated stationery affordable for the first time. What started as an itemized bill slip is, two centuries later, the header sitting at the top of this tool's own preview pane.
| Question | Quick Answer |
|---|---|
| What did the letterhead evolve from? | The billhead, a printed invoice slip |
| When did all purpose stationery emerge? | From around 1820 |
| What finished the shift to letterheads? | Mid-19th century postal reform based on weight, not sheet count |
| What phrase did billheads originally open with? | "Bought of" |
Every letterhead is built entirely inside your own browser using JavaScript, your logo and details are never uploaded or sent to a server, and no account or signup is required.
4Frequently Asked Questions
Grounded in design historian David Jury's own research into early business stationery, not a generic history claim with no source. The full essay is available at davidjury.com. For how consistent branding builds recipient trust, see Wix's design guide. For related tools on this site, see the Business Card Generator and the full SmallStudyTools.com tool library.
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