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Accent bar
A solid bar of the accent colour runs down the left edge of every section, carrying the structure instead of a rule. One column, one accent, nothing else doing any work.
The numbers
Every figure below is a value in the template registry the builder ships (assets/js/render/templates.js), or a size derived from it by the same multipliers the document stylesheet uses. Body text is not the preset’s nominal point size: it is that figure corrected for the face’s optical size, which is why a 10 pt Helvetica preset renders at 11.73 pt here. Nothing on this page is a measured pass rate or a hiring outcome, because neither exists.
- Builder id
- accentbar
- Sheet
- Letter, 8.5 × 11 in
- Margins
- 0.6 in on all four sides
- Body
- 10.50 pt, 1.36 line height
- Face
- System UI, web-safe. The reference face, at its own point size.
- Line length
- 76 characters, about 38 em, capped and centred
- Name
- 20.47 pt
- Section headings
- Title case, 14.36 pt, no rule
- Section gap
- 14 pt. Entry gap 7 pt.
- Bullets
- Filled disc, 1.68 pt between them
- Columns
- One. No column split, and no risk of a misread reading order.
- Arrangement
- section bar.
- Photo
- None.
- Accent
- #3a35bd, changeable in Design
- Colour
- Colour allowed. A mono printer greys the accent; the rules still carry the structure.
What it is for
Good at
- Colour printing and colour screens, where the bar is the only thing telling the eye where a section ends.
- A brand team that has one accent colour and wants it on the page exactly once per section.
- A page with many short sections, where a 3 pt bar is cheaper visually than a rule.
- Marketers and agency people, who read a considered page as part of the pitch.
Bad at
- A monochrome printer, where the bar greys out and stops being a bar. The heading still stands alone, so nothing is lost, but the structure is.
- A colour-blind reader, or a screen profile set to greyscale, where the bar is the only signal and it is a signal in hue.
- Print-safe requirements, which this preset is not: a print-safe setting replaces the accent with near-black and the bar becomes a heavy black rule.
- A reader who has seen the bar used the other way round, on a marketing document, and expects to be sold to.
ATS profile
Clean
One column, no tables, no images, and a heading alone on its line. The bar is padding plus a background on the section, not a character and not a border around a block.
Nothing about the bar reaches the text layer, which is the only thing that matters here. A parser reads the heading, then the entries under it, in the same order a person does.
The honest note is a print one rather than a parsing one: this preset is not print-safe, and print-safe is the same page without the colour.
Still yours to get right
A clean layout with a placeholder employer named “Company 1” is still a document a parser discards. No template can fix a sentence that describes effort instead of effect. Start with the resume basics guide and the one on quantifying impact.
Marco Silva
Head of Marketing
- marco.silva@example.com
- +351 22 555 0188
- Porto, Portugal
Profile
Head of marketing, nine years, mostly B2B. Have never run an agency and have never needed to.
Experience
Douro Software
2021 – Present
Head of Marketing · Porto
- Rebuilt the demand programme; marketing-sourced pipeline up 2.1× in two years.
- Hired and led a team of six across content, field and lifecycle.
Atlantico Payments
2018 – 2021
Marketing Manager · Lisbon
- Owned three product launches end to end.
Atlantico Pagamentos, Lisbon
2018 – 2021
Marketing Manager
- Owned three product launches end to end.
- Built the lifecycle programme from nothing.
Skills
- Channels
- Paid search, field events, lifecycle
- Stack
- HubSpot, Marketo, Analytics
Education
Universidade do Porto
2011 – 2015
B.A. Business Management
Awards
- Best Employer Brand, small, 2022
- Prémio Marketeer, 2020
Languages
- Portuguese (native)
- English (fluent)
- Spanish (professional)
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