Templates, fonts, and spacing

The 6 templates and what each one looks like, plus the accent color, line height, font, size, and weight controls in the Styles tab.

The Styles tab holds your template, accent color, line spacing, and all of your type settings, split into two groups: Theme and Typography.

Every change renders in the preview immediately, and the preview is the same HTML your PDF is built from, so what you see is what downloads.

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The 6 templates

Pick one from the Template dropdown. There are no thumbnails, because the preview beside you is a full size thumbnail of your own content, which is more useful than a picture of someone else's.

Template	What it looks like
Classic	Plain centered header, plain uppercase section titles. Times, 12pt body.
Professional	Accent rule under the header, bordered section titles. Renames sections to Professional Summary, Core Competencies, Key Projects.
Executive	Widely letter spaced uppercase name, section titles with a rule above. Georgia, skills in 3 columns.
Modern	Large left aligned name, letter spaced titles with an accent underline. Arial, skills in columns.
Creative	Thick accent underline on the header, accent bar down the left of each section title. Verdana.
Minimal	Hairline rule under the header, unadorned titles, meta details set inline. Cambria.

All 6 render the same 13 sections, so they differ in typography and rules rather than in what they can show.

Switching a template replaces your style settings. Font, sizes, weights, line heights, header alignment, margins, and skills layout are all reset to the new template's own defaults in one move, so settle on a template before you spend time tuning any of those.

Theme

Accent Color sets the color used for rules, borders, and title accents. It opens with 9 swatches (black through to teal, red, violet, blue, orange, and amber), a free color picker, and a hex field.

Templates use the accent differently: Classic and Minimal barely touch it, while Creative leans on it hard. Set a color before deciding a template is not colorful enough.

Line Height sets the spacing of ordinary text, from 100 to 200 percent. List Line Height does the same for bullet lists, and starts lower, because bullets read better tighter than paragraphs.

These two are the second best page-length lever after margins.

Typography

Font

You get 12 families: Arial, Times New Roman, Georgia, Verdana, Tahoma, Palatino, Cambria, Courier, Inter, Roboto, Merriweather, and Garamond. Each option in the list is drawn in its own face, so the dropdown shows you what you are choosing before you choose it.

Every font is embedded directly into your PDF, so it renders the same on a machine that has never had that font installed.

Sizes

There are 6 sliders, all in points:

Setting	Range
Body Content	8 to 14
Full Name	10 to 28
Headline	8 to 18
Section Title	8 to 18
Primary Heading	8 to 18
Secondary Heading	8 to 16

Primary Heading is your job title or institution. Secondary Heading is the line under it, usually the company and location.

Below 10pt, body text starts costing you readability with a human, which is the audience that matters once the ATS is done with your file. Reach for margins and line height before you shrink the type.

Weights

The same 6 roles again, each set to Normal or Bold. Body Content appears twice in this tab, once under sizes and once under weights.

Most templates ship with the name, section titles, and primary headings bold, and everything else normal. Making more than that bold makes none of it stand out.

Preview zoom

The zoom control sits on the preview toolbar rather than in this tab. It offers Auto, plus fixed steps from 25 to 200 percent.

Zoom is a viewing setting only, so it changes nothing about your resume and nothing about your export.

Paper size, margins, and date formats are separate from styling and live in their own tab. See Layout: paper size, margins, and date formats.