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Boxed
Every section in a bordered panel with a light ground, so the page reads as a stack of cards. The heading is still the first line inside its panel, which is the one thing a box must not break.
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
- boxed
- Sheet
- Letter, 8.5 × 11 in
- Margins
- 0.5 in on all four sides
- Body
- 10.50 pt, 1.34 line height
- Face
- Segoe UI, web-safe. The reference face, at its own point size.
- Line length
- 80 characters, about 40 em, capped and centred
- Name
- 20.47 pt
- Section headings
- Title case, 14.36 pt, no rule
- Section gap
- 10.20 pt. Entry gap 6 pt.
- Bullets
- Filled disc, 1.68 pt between them
- Columns
- One. No column split, and no risk of a misread reading order.
- Arrangement
- section box.
- Photo
- None.
- Accent
- #065f46, changeable in Design
- Colour
- Colour allowed. A mono printer greys the accent; the rules still carry the structure.
What it is for
Good at
- Documents with short, self-contained sections, where a panel per section makes the boundaries obvious.
- A reader who likes being told where one thing ends and the next begins.
- Screen reading, where a panel is a visible boundary rather than an implied one.
- A page that needs one organising idea and has nothing else to say.
Bad at
- Print, where a page of bordered panels is a page of boxes to photocopy and a lot of grey to carry.
- A dense section. A panel around forty lines is a panel with forty lines in it.
- A monochrome printer, where a light ground is simply a light grey box and the border is the only thing left.
- Employers with a house style, which is the situation where a template that is visibly a template is a liability.
ATS profile
Clean
One column, no tables, no text boxes, no images. The panels are borders and background colours on block elements, and the heading is still the first line inside each one.
The thing that breaks a parse is a text box, and a text box is a floating shape with the text placed inside it in an order the DOM does not describe. A panel here is a block with a border, which is a different object entirely.
If you want to be sure, rail and accent bar get the same visual organisation with less furniture.
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.
Ruth Abrahams
Executive Director
- ruth.abrahams@example.org
- +1 212 555 0155
- New York, New York
Profile
Executive director, twelve years in youth services. Small organisation, no budget for a communications team, and a board that reads everything.
Experience
Eastside Youth Collective
2020 – Present
Executive Director · New York, NY
- Grew annual funding from $1.2M to $3.1M across three grants and a campaign.
- Cut average time to placement from 41 days to 19.
Bronx Futures
2015 – 2020
Programme Director · New York, NY
- Ran three after-school programmes for 900 students.
Harlem Learning Collective, New York, NY
2015 – 2020
Programme Director
- Ran three after-school programmes for 900 students.
Education
Columbia University
2010 – 2012
M.S.W. Social Work
Governance
- Board member, Youth Arts Exchange, 2021 – present
Funding
- Wrote three successful grant applications totalling $2.4M
Use this template
Opens the builder on Boxed with the build dialog in front of you. The document on the page is the document that exports; there is no separate form to keep in sync with it.
Open Boxed in the builder
The draft is written to this browser and nowhere else. No account, no upload, no analytics.
Opens the builder at #template=boxed