Shorthand templates

Shorthand is the web content creation platform used by teams in marketing, communications, and media to tell their most important stories. From digital magazines and feature stories to reports, proposals, explainer content, and more, Shorthand stories deliver an immersive experience that helps delight your readers and move your metrics.

Shorthand accelerates the production of high-end visual content by providing a simple, easy-to-use editor and prebuilt section layouts that render beautifully in any browser. This means that your whole team can create engaging content for the web or private audiences — no code or web design skills required.

Yes, the templates are completely free to use with the Shorthand platform. You can customise them as you wish with your own text, fonts, styles, images, and other media.

It's simple to sign up, invite your collaborators, and get started — with no credit card required until you're ready to publish.

Yes! The templates are designed as starting points to provide inspiration on layout, visuals, and narrative structure. Any element can be changed — from text to images, logos, videos, fonts, colours, and layouts.

Once you open a template in the Shorthand editor you'll be able to customise colours, styles, photographs, videos, and illustrations to your brand guideline. You can also modify the story header to use your logo and brand colours.

Business and Enterprise plans offer additional options for tailoring content to your brand requirements, including a bespoke custom branded theme built to your specification, custom CSS, and developer tools for total control over styles, integrations, and layouts.

The Team plan provides a basic theme builder, enabling you to create custom themes with your choice of fonts, colours, and logos.

Once you've customised a template in the Shorthand editor you'll have access to a range of publishing and sharing options, including publishing to the web or to a private audience.

You can host on Shorthand's servers or your own, using your domain or your choice of shorthandstories.com subdomain. If you already have a website or intranet site you want to publish to, you can also take advantage of simple embedding options.

It's simple to publish your first story to Shorthand hosting — simply sign up to the platform now.

To explore the available publishing options, we recommend getting in touch — we're happy to advise on the best solution for your unique requirements. You can also learn more about publishing in our knowledge base.

Starting with Shorthand is easy and free. Sign up, invite your collaborators, and create as many stories and projects as you like.

We offer subscription plans to suit teams of all sizes. Visit our pricing page to learn more.