Designing the Letterhead

Next you'll design the letterhead, which is very similar in design to the business card you just made. Create a new document in InDesign that is set to letter size 8.5 x 11 with a margin of 0.375 inches all around and a bleed of 0.125 inches all around as well.

Rather than redoing all the work you did for the business card, simply open the business card file and copy all the contents from it. Then switch back to the letterhead document and paste (see Figure 12.31).

Figure 12.31. The business card elements pasted into the letterhead file.

Select the text and change it to 11-point type on 16-point leading. Position the text, along with the logo, near the top of the page. Then select the tag line and change it to 24-point type. Position the tag line near the bottom of the page. Scale the photo so that it fits correctly, bleeding off the bottom of the page. The letterhead is now complete (see Figure 12.32), so save it into Version Cue and add a comment to the file.

Figure 12.32. The final letterhead.