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Compact Ledger layout

Ledger Serif invoice template

Dense table with a warm text serif for names and the monospace kept for figures.

Compact Ledgereditorial

What you see above is the whole document — every template stays visible whatever you pay. Making an invoice with Ledger Serif itself is not part of the Free plan: Free covers 6 of the 60 templates, which are the 6 the generator offers, and the rest arrive with the paid plan when it launches.

All 60 templates

Sample data · A4 · rendered by the product

How this sheet is set

Names in IBM Plex Serif, figures in IBM Plex Mono, under a walnut rule — warm reading for a table that is otherwise pure density.

The Compact Ledger layout

The schedule is a real table, which is the only reason its header can repeat when the sheet breaks across pages. Margins and line height are tighter than the classic sheet's, so roughly twice as many rows fit before a second page starts.

Who it suits

Long itemised invoices — agencies billing many small tasks, consultancies billing per ticket, anyone whose schedule regularly runs past twenty lines.

Serif display type, warm ink and a single accent used sparingly. The voice of a studio, a practice or a consultancy whose work is judged partly on how it is presented.

What it prints

Every template in the library prints the same set of facts — a template that dropped one would fail the library’s own contract test. What changes between them is where the facts sit and how they are set.

  • Issuer and recipient, each with an address, an optional contact line, and a tax label and number you write yourself.
  • Invoice number, issue date, service period, payment terms or an explicit due date, and the date of the service agreement.
  • Your own references — purchase order, contract, cost centre — labelled the way your client labels them.
  • Line items with a quantity, an optional unit, an optional period, a rate and an amount.
  • A note field, and full banking details with an optional payment reference.

Anything you leave empty prints nothing at all — no blank labels, no placeholder rows.

Other Compact Ledger templates

Same voice, different shape