Company documents need to be organized, professional, and consistent. Combine all those three, and you have a letterhead.
A letterhead is that eye-catching graphic at the top of the paper that contains your logo, address, and contact information. You put it on invoices, printed job offers, notices, and in-house documents.
Create your sleek letterhead design with our top picks below.
Sleek Letterhead Design Elements
Let’s get you started on the right path to make your brand more stylish and consistent. Create beautiful headings with the templates we curated just for you. We prepared 19 categories just for you:
- Add Abstract Elements
- Beauty in Simplicity
- Brandish A Watermark
- Contrasting Is Fun
- Custom Borders
- Cute Wrap-Up
- Solid Colored Paper
- Directing with Visual Cues
- Go For The Footer
- Going Both Ways (Back to Back)
- Gradients
- Imagery For Framing
- Put A Stamp On It
- Sign The Letterhead
- Spacing Matters
- Try Icon Illustrations
- Typography Pretty
- Use An Emblem
Add Abstract Elements
You’d want to add geometric shapes that challenge your viewers’ eyes for this type of design. A mix and match of shapes allow you to capture the eyes of whoever is reading your paper which prepares them for what comes next. It’s also a great professional letterhead design that still looks creative.
Check out the abstract designs below for inspiration:
Brand Identity by Mukhlasur Rahman
Company It Company Letterhead Design by Priyo Subarkah
Creative Modern Green Color Corporate Business Letterhead Design by Designblas
Beauty in Simple Letterhead Design
Keeping things short and simple also has its charm. It gives your documents a clean look and lets your reader focus on the contents rather than get distracted by design. After all, you can never go wrong with simple as long as it’s made in the right format — Word file to PDF or vice versa.
Check out the simple templates below:
Modern, It Company Letterhead Design by Petter Goms
Straple Letterheads by Lewy Dohren for Gravita
Zukowska Interior Design Branding #1 by Tomasz Mazurczak
Brandish A Watermark
Own your design. Add a hint of your brand by fading it into the elements you already have as a letterhead. It could be your name or logo. You have successfully made yourself a watermark on your document as long as it’s subtle and seen when light is shined on it.
Get inspired by the designs below:
Design Letterhead Design by R.design
Lawyer – Brand identity by Daria
MoEA Stationery and Letterhead by Dan Draper
Serious, Business Business Letterhead Design by Designs 2019
Upmarket, Electric Company Electric Company Letterhead Design by logodentity
Contrasting is Fun
Look at your color scheme. Try using a contrasting palette. It makes your document look more organized and aids in establishing visual hierarchy. It guides your reader’s eyes to the essential aspects of the paper. It also gives an elegant look to your paper that you’ll surely love.
Find your next design below:
Company It Company Letterhead Design by nextconcept
Letterhead Design (V-02) byMehnaz Mostare
Modern, Company Financial Planning Letterhead Design by R.design
Professional Letterhead Design by Designernishas
Startup Ventures logo, stationery, identity design by Alex Tass, logo designer
Custom Letterhead Design
Individuality in a business is a great asset. Add that to your documents by designing your borders. It’s a creative and fun touch to your documents. It makes you stand out from the competition and associates the design with you. Whether an invoice or a heading for in-house transactions, having a clear brand identity contributes to the consistency that customers love.
Find inspiration from the border designs below:
B D Mockup1 A by Lina and Arnold
Unique and Minimal Letterhead Design For 15DDP 01 by Rizwan Ahmed
Cute Wrap-Up
Give your reader the impression that the document you gave them has an extension at the back of the paper: get a wrap-up letterhead. Aside from that, you can make your other designs uniform to this since you can resize the graphic and have a unique look.
Check out these letterhead design examples below:
Branding Stationary by MD AL MIZAN
Letterhead design by Rayan Raaz Rasel
Letterhead Design by Rezaur Rahman Arzu
Letterhead Template With Green Color by MD. NAWAJISH ISLAM
Netro Corporate Identity by Social Media Templates
Solid Colored Paper
White is too plain sometimes, so use a variety of solid colors for your paper. You can try light or dark colors as long as you use the right colors for your text. The dark background is to light text and vice versa for light backgrounds.
Take your pick from the color schemes below:
BR Personal Brand by Mockup Cloud
Stationery Branding Mockup by Mockup Cloud
TMARC Rebranding by Justine Kerr
Directing with Visual Cues
Tell your readers where to start reading without telling them through your visuals. It could be your header or logo that begins from the middle of the far left corner. Either way, your visuals are crucial to making this letterhead style work.
Find the visual cues for your brand below:
DIAMONERY letterhead stationery design by Sazzad Hosen
Elegant, Business Letterhead Design by logodentity
MGA Marketing Jurídico by Mockup Cloud
Serious, Firm Law Firm Letterhead Design by alex_etel
Upstream Lab — Stationery by Alexei Maletsky
Go For The Footer
Go below instead of focusing your document’s design on the top of the page. Your footer could be a vital asset since, after the crucial details, you make a lasting impression with more information about you below. It’s a strong letterhead design, whether a banner with your latest happenings like in email signatures or just your contact information.
Find your footer below:
Brand Identity by Mukhlasur Rahman
CIS – Letterhead Design for a water plant based industrial Co. by uxboss™ ?
Fun Biz Applications by Malley Design
Letterhead design for softopark by Tarek Rahim Kebria
Via Padova | Nugno by Nugno
Going Both Ways
Stand out with a back-to-back print for your letterhead. Print on the back of your paper with a similar design to what you have in front. Whether it be a subtle pattern related to your logo or repetition to look like a unique background, you make your paper original-looking and polished.
Find the design that inspires you below:
Aston Identity Design by Aditya | Logo Designer
Bank of Cashton Collateral by Malley Design
Coal Mining Coal Mining Letterhead Design by logodentity
Letterhead by Kate Zest Studio
New logo – new stationery by Jaka
Gradients
As you can see, gradients are a popular color scheme choice. Whether in logos or just overall graphic design, having this on your header or side column will give your brand a fresh, new look.
Check below for our top gradient design picks:
Letterhead Design by astaamiye
Letterhead by Casco Creativo
Imagery For Framing
We have custom borders to frame your letterhead but have you tried images? They’re a great way also to frame your design. Again, it adds flair and association with the product and or service you want to give to your customers. Let’s say that your brand is all about sustainable items. You can have the earth atop of a hand or just green leaves.
Either way, the image you choose will become the background in this design, and they’re mostly put on the edges to make the reader read the content in the middle better, and you technically set the tone with the image your use as framing.
Check out the image designs below:
Nineteen Jewelry Brand Identity by Mockup Cloud
letterhead design by Obydullah
Put A Stamp On It
Stamps may be old-fashioned, but it also makes your letterhead look more personalized, and you put effort into it. You took the time to put your mark on the paper and make your brand look consistent, which customers love.
Check out our top picks for stamp designs below:
Valkyrie Collateral by Matt Naylor
ELC Collateral by Patrick Torres
letterhead front n back by Mary Frances Foster
Nature Hype Network Stationery by Audrey Elise
Nora Identity System by Rick Jordens
Sign The Letterhead
Another unique way of designing a personal letterhead design is by signing it yourself. Your signature is originally yours, so people associate it with you alone when you use it. Also, your letterhead looks personal with this kind of design.
Inspiration fills the signature examples below:
Brand Identity | Part Two Properties by Luka Zarandia
CSC Letterheads by Nick Beel
Letterhead & Business Cards – BWF by Lauren White
Rachel Bates Interiors Stationery System by Andrew Shumacker
VIZ Rebrand pt 2 by Ryan Hammond
Spacing Matters
We mean white space and not just how you format the contents on the paper. Use space to create space for the reader’s eyes to rest. If your document looks too cluttered, it could discourage the reader from reading the contents. Think of it this way: if asked to choose between a research paper halved into two columns or a book with text per page, which one would you choose?
Most often, it’s the latter since it’s short and contains white space. The design isn’t cramped, but your edges or even your visual is hip enough to catch your reader’s interest.
Check out the designs below that made use of white space for their letterhead well:
Kovitz Business Papers by Nicholas Scimeca
Olia Logo Branding, Stationery Design by Mohammad Shuzon
Peep Corporate Identity by Valerie Giffin
Raida Architects – Stationery Design by Connor Fowler (.com)
SinoFly | Logo Branding | Stationery Design | Corporate Identity by Mahdy Hasan Hridoy
Try Icon Illustrations
Having images representing complex ideas is a great way to explain your services. Or possibly an association is made mainly in your industry. For example, if your business provides printing services, you can have a printer itself or ink vials as icons.
Take your pick from the icon examples below:
Cubic Agency Letterheads by Andrei Manolache
Fudoo by Kevin Burr
Hannah Posey Print Materials by Brianna Miller
Letterhead, Envelope & Stamp by Egzote
VILLAGE branding by Mockup Cloud
Typography Pretty
Choose typography that works for you. You can check out typography trends to help you make your choice. This factor affects the header and the content of the paper. Make sure it reflects who you are as a business and is eligible. We can’t have your readers confused about what you want to say to them.
Here are top picks of unique typography you could use for your letterhead:
Kanu Corporate by Antonio Calvino
Letterhead Shile Brewer Co. by Outer Studio
Masterman’s Collateral by Andrew Nolan
Nick Lafontaine – Stationery by Philippe Gauthier
Signature Branding Mockup by Mockup Cloud
Use An Emblem
Give your header a nostalgic yet chic look; add an emblem. Show your reader that the paper’s contents have niche and transaction authority. Use a badge or a shield to exude professionalism for this type of letterhead.
Choose your emblem design below:
Branding (Interior designer) by Shipra GUPTA
Futunext – Letterhead + envelope by Radek Prekurat
Hull City Official Supporters Club Stationery by Emily Gilroy
Letterhead by Swell Design
Zukowska Interior Design Branding #2 by Tomasz Mazurczak
Brand Better with A Unique Letterhead
And there you have it! Letterhead designs to pump up your brand. You can either design it yourself or have a designer for you.
Either way, we have both. Here at DesignCrowd, we have designers who can create custom letterhead designs just for you. Or go to BrandCrowd to pick your template, edit, save, and voila! You created your own design.
Happy designing!
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Written by DesignCrowd on Wednesday, June 1, 2022
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