A modern resume template written in Typst, inspired by Awesome-CV
Hi all,
I made this typst template originally to port my personal resume to typst from Latex. It tries to be a faithful port of the Awesome-CV latex template that I was previously using. Hope you find it useful.
This is interesting as I simply copied the same styling as the previous template I was using. Would it be better to highlight the entire first word instead of the first n letters?
Yes. Your education is a 5 second skim through, I would not put it at the center page.
If you believe you have zero relevant experience, then omit that panel and let’s make the main focus your projects.
I'm not a big fan of mixing colors in a single word. 'Taky' might the be the right to describe why. I do like the color blue you used - if you're going to do it, make it the whole word. The name should also be consitent. Bold and either black or blue, not black and blue.
The light blue and light gray body text is difficult to read. Colors should be solid black, or navy blue. Bright and 'fun' colors are heard to read for some. Assume they're colorblind or will print it on a B&W printer with poor contrast.
I like to lead with the job title instead of the company. Where you worked is largely irrevelvant compared to what you've done at those places. It also makes it easy to combine company, city and years in one line.
start with previous jobs (unless education was most recent or more relevant to new job). Typically the order is job > skills > education.
Avoid italics they can be unnecessarily diffuclt to read
Engine Mechanic
Bob's Auto | City, ST | 2017-2021
Education does not need so many details (if relevant to job, include specific courses and projects). Grad date can be omitted to help obfuscate you're age (a grad from 2024 is probably inexpirenced, while a 1967 grad is going to be retiring soon).
Two lines is all you need;
Bob's University, City, ST
B.S. Computer Science, minor electrical enginnering
The body text seems too light still, but that might be my phone screen. It should be solid black.
Only One change from here I would strongly recommend making is the blue "city" text black.
Treat blue and bold text as your 'highlighter', there to help someone quickly navigate to the important sections of the page. City is not important. Your use of varriying font sizes and bullet lists is great for page navigation.
If I was going to use color, I'd highlight the jobs before the city name/git link.
The rest is personal taste.
Personally, I think the blue headers is enough. It might get to too blue if you color job titles as well. You don't need a separate monochrome version, the dark blue will show as black if it happens to be printed in B&W. You should also test print your resume in B&W. I find easier to spot errors on paper.
Edits as I spot more little things.
(Also there's an extra space in the second skill name - Event Bus)
(You also have space to make programming languages one line. At first glace I though you had a blank section for "languages". Could probably just say "programming", but I'm not in that field so maybe that's frowned upon?)
(In education, you have an example line underneath the university name, what is that line for? I would put the degree in that space, not off to the side. That's technicaly more important that the university it self, but it's probably "improper form" to list that above the uni name. (or whatever some one snoby would say).
(One last thing, you don't really need your full street address. Its unlikely anyone will mail you a response, and its just as likely you'll have to enter it into the application form anyways. City will suffice.)
(One last last thing, if you're going to give yourself titles at the top, you better show them in your expirence section. (I know this is just an example template and I am being incredibly picky) but I don't see architect anyware in the actual resume. That communicates to me you're just calling yourself related titles hoping one sticks)
This is great! How would you describe your experience creating this template? I've been wondering about porting the modern-cv template from LaTeX myself.
Overall it was pretty nice honestly. Especially coming from Latex. Creating a template in Latex was very difficult but in typst it's way more intuitive (at least to me) and it's easy to control every aspect of the text and its layout.
Someone already post that. Typst it's already a lot easier to use, with meaningful errors and markup near markdown and don't need 200x hard disk space, nor dependencies to work.
I added the link now and yes, I really hope typst takes off as well. I've been using it pretty extensively where I can at work and my personal life and it's so much easier than Latex. I haven't done anything too complicated yet so we'll see how it goes.
I understand. But, consultants could work on so many various things based on the project. Its better to provide context of the role and what industry that project was instead of only showing one block of text.
As an example, If I worked at a company for 2 years, I could have used GitHub for 3 months in one project and used GitLab for 6 months in another project. If I write both of them in the same block, you would think I have 2 years of experience in both which is not accurate.
Obviously there are ways you can write that in the description. I was just wondering if there are options to have nested experience.
As a manager who sometimes hires, I can't say that I would ever particularly care about the education section for the types of roles I hire for, let alone put it first and foremost.
Also, personally, my own CV combines my role's duties and its achievements/projects together for each of the jobs I've had, with a primary focus on the recent.
I am also in the single pager, latex CV club. I ended up splitting into two columns though like -
NAME
contact deets
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bio | current workplace
skills | old workplace (senior)
education | old workplace (midlevel)
projects | first workplace