Torstein Krause Johansen has a short video up on how he makes his Org reports pretty. It’s really pretty simple and not at all mysterious: he writes his Org as usual but adds a bit of CSS. Of course, that works only for HTML but you can do similar things with PDF and probably most of the other export formats.
Johansen adds a clocktable block to the end of his report so that he gets a nice report of the time spent on each of the items. The table in the pretty report ends up looking very nice.
Johansen doesn’t give a link to his CSS file but here it is. He uses the resulting prettified reports mostly to share with his colleagues. If you’ve been seeking an easy way to generate better looking reports, take a look at his video.
The video is only 4 minutes, 53 seconds long so it’s easy to fit in. The only problem with the video is the audio level. It was apparently recorded at low volume and even when played at full volume it’s hard to hear parts of it. Even so, it’s worth 5 minutes of your time. It’s a great example of how flexible Emacs and Org mode can be.