Some letters are meant to be kept, not skimmed. The Editorial Letter opens with a drop cap in deep burgundy under a Playfair Display masthead, with a Lora body that reads like a magazine feature — built for founder letters, editor's notes, and the yearly message that deserves better than an email thread.
Write it like a letter — plain paragraphs in Markdown, a heading for the masthead, emphasis where you'd lean in. The template supplies the publishing: the drop-cap opener, the centered rule, the measured column. What arrives reads as considered and set, even if you wrote it in a text editor twenty minutes before sending.
# A Letter from the Founders *July 2026* When we started Northwind three years ago, we believed the hard part would be the technology. We were wrong in the most instructive way possible. The hard part was earning the right to be boring — to become the system our customers stopped thinking about because it simply worked. This year, for the first time, support tickets fell while usage doubled. That crossover is the only chart we framed. ## What we learned We learned that trust compounds faster than features. The three largest customers we signed this year each cited the same reference call — not the demo, not the roadmap. We learned to say no earlier. The two products we declined to build would have consumed the year; the one we shipped instead now carries a third of revenue. ## What comes next Next year we go deeper, not wider: two integrations our customers have asked for by name, and an honest attempt at the hardest problem in our space. Thank you for reading, and for building alongside us. **Maya & Jonas**
Paste your Markdown in the editor, pick Editorial Letter, and download the PDF — no code involved.
curl https://inkrun.dev/api/v1/render \
-H "Authorization: Bearer sk_..." \
-H "Accept: application/pdf" \
-d '{"template": "editorial-letter", "markdown": "# ..."}' \
--output editorial-letter.pdfAdd the Inkrun MCP connector once, then ask your agent:
“Polish this draft founder letter and render it with the editorial-letter template.”
The first paragraph after the masthead automatically receives the drop-cap treatment — no special syntax in your Markdown.
Duplicate the template and set your own hex; the drop cap, rules and masthead all follow the new accent.
Yes — fonts are embedded and margins are print-safe, so the same PDF works for email attachment and physical printing.
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