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What is this

This is an attempt to reproduce the Illinois letterhead in Latex using the new brand, the block-I.

The official [typogrophy] recommendation is the Montserrat font, used here and included in TexLive. The main text defaults to Montserrat, but the body can be easily changed.

How to use

Copy (or link) the illinois-letterhead.sty and .pdf logo files to your working directory. In addition, you will need sig.png or some other signature if you plan to use one. Then start with template.tex and modify.

The following commands are optional:

Command Description
\fromdept{<text>} Department name
\fromdeptaddress{<text>} Department address
\fromtel{<text>} Phone number (footer)
\fromemail{<text>} Email address (footer)
\fromweb{<text>} URL (footer)
\fromname{<text>} From name (closing)
\closing{<text>} Closing text (e.g. Sincerely,, closing)
\signaturefile{<filename>} Signature file (closing)

How to use, writing many letters

Script startletter.sh is simple script that can create a directory for each letter. For example,

./startletter.sh some_topic_2024

will create

some_topic_2024
├── illinois-letterhead.sty
├── Illinois-Logo-Full-Color-CMYK.pdf
├── Illinois-Wordmark-Horizontal-Full-Color-CMYK.pdf
├── sig.png
└── some_topic_2024.tex

Each letter is then self-contained to a directory. Replace sig.png and/or modify the script.

What it looks like

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Details

You can see details by using the layout option: \usepackage[layout]{illinois-letterhead}. Setting this shows the measurements similar to here.

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