billheads

Printed business forms

Billheads are printed letterhead sheets used for invoices and statements, typically featuring a company's name, address, and logo at the top.

The term dates from when businesses kept stocks of preprinted forms for billing customers: The stationer supplied five hundred billheads for the new firm.

Now largely obsolete with digital invoicing.

stationery

invoice

Itemized billing statement

receiptWritten payment acknowledgment
printedTransferred to paper
paperPressed pulp for writing

business · correspondence · masthead · memorandum · notepad · stationery · logo · address · company · preprinted

design

typography

Arranging letters for display

engravingCarving into hard surfaces
vignetteBrief evocative description
ornamentalFor beauty, not function

border · monogram · emblem · font · layout · printing · lithograph · woodcut · decorative · illustration

accounting

ledger

Financial record book

invoiceItemized billing statement
statementExpressed claim or fact
receivableAwaiting payment

payable · itemized · charges · transaction · merchant · vendor · customer · bookkeeping · record · tally

historical

Victorian

Of a prim era

EdwardianOf early twentieth-century Britain
ephemeraDisposables preserved as collectibles
antiqueOld valued collectible

collectible · vintage · archive · mercantile · tradesman · apothecary · proprietor · establishment · nineteenth-century · manuscript

Opposites

printed vs. unprinted stationery

billheadsplain paper

Unlined, unprinted sheets

blank paper · blank sheets · copy paper

formal business documents vs. informal correspondence

billheadsscrap paper

Discarded pages repurposed for notes

notepaper · scratch paper · handwritten letters

Family

billhead

Familiarity: Top 1,000,000
Profile: Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Rated G