MIT LaTeX Stationery

Color MIT LetterHead Example

The MIT graphic identity website provides downloadable stationery templates for letterhead and envelopes. They provide both Microsoft Word and LaTeX templates. But although they provide both black and white and color templates for Word, they only provide the monochrome templates for LaTeX. When writing cover letters for the job market this year, I was not particularly interested in compromising on color and was completely unwilling to compromise on TeX.

As a result, I ended up modifying each of the three templates to include color. In the process, I fixed a few bugs and documented one tricky issue. I’ve published a git repository with my changes. It includes branches for each version of three of the “old” black and white templates as well as my my three new color templates. I hope others at MIT find it useful. I’ve tried to keep the changes minimal.

I’ve emailed the folks at MIT Communication Production Services to see if they want to publish my modified versions. Until then, anyone interested can help themselves to the git repository. LaTeX user that you are, you probably prefer that anyway.

3 Replies to “MIT LaTeX Stationery”

  1. Thanks for this — tried to clone, but looks like there is a bug of some sort? see:

    $ git clone git://projects.mako.cc/mit-stationery-latex
    Cloning into ‘mit-stationery-latex’…
    remote: Counting objects: 41, done.
    remote: Compressing objects: 100% (41/41), done.
    remote: Total 41 (delta 26), reused 0 (delta 0)
    Receiving objects: 100% (41/41), 35.18 KiB, done.
    Resolving deltas: 100% (26/26), done.
    warning: remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout.

    1. Whoops! I forgot to set a default head for the repository. The data was all there but a standard git clone didn’t work. It should be all fixed now and I’ve added a little README file to the repository that explain how you can switch between them easily.

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