What is your go-to model format (visual)? My models all look terrible

I always struggle formatting models that I create from scratch. I don't have any issues building the model itself, but it always ends up visually looking bad. Does anyone have any good model formats they can share? Screenshots (or excel files) would work... I'm just looking for how to make shit look good visually.

A few examples: how to format the date cells along the top be: no-fill with bold text or solid fill with white text? Or how to format total and subtotal rows: light grey fill? no fill with double underline? both?

FML please help

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