About this design
Where the Letterhead style comes from, and what it signals.
Letterhead draws from engraved stationery of the kind private banks and old law firms used before offset printing made it cheap: ivory stock, centered text, gold hairlines at the edge. Every slide is framed by a double hairline border in gold #B49A5B, one at 24px inset and a second at 30px, and all content is centered and symmetric, following formal correspondence conventions before left-alignment became standard.
The single typeface is Cormorant Garamond, a high-contrast serif Google Font; headings run in uppercase with 0.35em letter-spacing, numbers in regular-weight, attributions in gold. The signature motifs are the circular monogram seal on title and closing slides, two thin concentric gold circles enclosing 'N&Co' in serif, and the tilde-style flourish divider, a thin gold SVG wave about 70px wide that separates header from content as a printed rule would.
This is a formal theme with a narrow use: wealth management reviews, board letters, private client presentations, or any deck where the audience expects the material to be treated with the gravity of engraved paper. The symmetry and the single serif reinforce the idea that nothing here is casual.
Use it for
- Private wealth and family office client presentations
- Annual reports for established institutions
- Board letters and governance communications
- Luxury brand and heritage product presentations
Skip it for
- Tech or startup pitches; the engraved aesthetic signals age and establishment, not speed
- Decks that require a lot of data tables or charts; the centered layout constrains column structures
The slide design prompt
This is the exact text that gets sent to your AI.
Create a presentation in the 'Letterhead' theme, engraved stationery from a private firm. Background: ivory #FCF9F1 on every slide. Typography: 'Cormorant Garamond' (a Google Font) serif throughout; headers as uppercase serif with wide letterspacing of 0.35em in charcoal #2B2B28; numbers in restrained regular-weight serif; accents and attributions in gold #B49A5B. Every layout is centered and symmetric. Signature motifs: (1) a double hairline border on every slide, one 1px gold #B49A5B line inset 24px and a second 1px line inset 30px; (2) a circular monogram seal, two thin concentric gold circles about 96px wide with the serif initials 'N&Co' inside, placed top center on the title and closing slides; (3) small tilde-style flourish dividers, a thin gold wave about 70px wide, between header and content; (4) faint hairline separators in #D9CDB0. Strictly avoid: sans-serif type, bright colors, left-aligned layouts, drop shadows, photographs or icons, rules thicker than 1px. Use this theme for my slides. Ask me what the presentation is about first, then apply the theme to every slide.View this prompt and its data on GitHub
How to use this prompt
From copied text to a finished Letterhead deck in four moves.
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Copy the prompt
Use the copy button, or open it pre-filled in Claude or ChatGPT with one click from the panel on this page.
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Tell the AI your topic
The prompt instructs the AI to ask what your presentation is about first. A sentence or a pasted outline is enough.
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Generate and iterate
Ask for more slides or swap a layout. The avoid list at the end of the prompt keeps Letterhead on-style while the content changes.
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Or skip straight to a deck
SlideSpeak turns your topic or document into a finished Letterhead presentation, exportable as PowerPoint or PDF.
Common questions
Working with the Letterhead slide design prompt in practice.
