Monogram letterhead in Word, matched to engraved sheets

A monogram says the letter is from a person, not an office

A monogram letterhead is among the oldest forms of personal stationery. The mark is a cipher of initials or a symbol associated with one person; there is usually no address line, no phone number, and certainly no logotype.

The whole convention says: this letter is from me, not from anything I run.

The mark is normally cut by an engraver and printed on heavy stock for the letters that should arrive as physical objects. But a person who keeps monogram stationery still sends typed letters too — a note that needs to be sent today, a reply to an institution that wants something in writing this week. Without a Word version of the monogram letterhead, those typed letters either go out on a plain document, which feels off, or the assistant rebuilds the monogram in Word from a screenshot, which feels worse. Neither matches the engraved sheets that the typed letters are meant to sit alongside.

A Word file under the same monogram

Letterhead Lab converts the monogram letterhead PDF — the same artwork your engraver works from — into a Word file with the mark fixed in the header. There is no rebuild and no redrawing; the monogram is placed as a high-resolution image, so the line weight and spacing the engraver cut are preserved exactly.

The result is a typed correspondence file that genuinely matches the engraved sheets. A letter the assistant types this afternoon, and a letter the principal handwrites this evening on the engraved sheet your stationer printed, are both under the identical monogram — because both came from the same source PDF.

This is the closing of a real loop. Wells & Drew has been engraving fine stationery since 1855; they take the monogram PDF and produce the engraved sheets, calling cards, and envelopes. Letterhead Lab takes the same PDF and produces the Word file for the typed letters in between. The Word side is a one-time $19 conversion; the engraved side is whatever the stationer quotes. For the rare letter that runs onto a second page, the Word file repeats the monogram in the header automatically, exactly as a printer would carry it. The conversion runs in the browser, so the monogram PDF and the name behind it never reach our servers.