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Cards
Two entries per row, each in its own hairline box. It is the one preset in the set that puts two columns of text on a sheet, and the builder is blunt that it is a screen arrangement: on paper the cards stack.
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
- cards
- Sheet
- Letter, 8.5 × 11 in
- Margins
- 0.5 in on all four sides
- Body
- 10 pt, 1.3 line height
- Face
- System UI, web-safe. The reference face, at its own point size.
- Line length
- 80 characters, about 40 em, capped and centred
- Name
- 19.50 pt
- Section headings
- Title case, 13.68 pt, no rule
- Section gap
- 12 pt. Entry gap 5 pt.
- Bullets
- Filled disc, 1.60 pt between them
- Columns
- One. No column split, and no risk of a misread reading order.
- Arrangement
- entry box; two cards per row.
- Photo
- None.
- Accent
- #4d5666, changeable in Design
- Colour
- Colour allowed. A mono printer greys the accent; the rules still carry the structure.
What it is for
Good at
- A short document. Four or six entries is exactly what a card grid is for.
- A PDF on a laptop, where the pairing of two jobs side by side is the point.
- Roles that are genuinely comparable, so the eye can move across a row.
- A page that is otherwise unremarkable and needs one organising idea.
Bad at
- Parsed applications. Two columns of text on a sheet is the failure case named on every published list, and this one is a grid rather than a marginal column.
- Print, where the builder itself stacks the cards back into a single column. The preview on screen and the sheet in the tray will not match.
- One long role. A single entry in a two-column grid is a card beside an empty space.
- A reader on a phone, where two cards to a row is two words to a line.
ATS profile
Visual only
Not for a parsed application, and the reason is the same as for every two-column page: a text extractor reads the page in a different order from the one the eye does. Greenhouse names complex and columned layouts among the things that produce a partial parse.
There is a second problem specific to this one. The cards are on paper stacked, so the file you send is not the file you looked at, and a reader comparing the two has no way to know which is the design.
If you like the density, compact is the same idea in one column, and maximalist is denser still.
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.
Grace Whitfield
Marketing Associate
- grace.whitfield@example.com
- +1 617 555 0134
- Boston, Massachusetts
Profile
Marketing associate, two years. Campaigns, copy and a lot of reporting.
Experience
Fenwick Insurance
2023 – Present
Marketing Associate · Boston, MA
- Own the quarterly email programme; open rate went from 18% to 31%.
- Wrote 40 landing pages and the copy guide they now follow.
Beacon Media
2022 – 2023
Marketing Intern · Boston, MA
- Built the reporting dashboard two managers still use.
Commonwealth Creative, Boston, MA
2022 – 2023
Marketing Intern
- Built the reporting dashboard two managers still use.
- Wrote the weekly newsletter for 6,000 subscribers.
Education
Boston College
2018 – 2022
B.A. Communications
Skills
- Tools
- HubSpot, Figma, Google Analytics
- Writing
- Web, email, long form
Volunteering
- Committee, Boston LGBTQ+ Chamber of Commerce, 2023 – present
Recognition
- Becker School, dean’s list, 2019 – 2022
Use this template
Opens the builder on Cards 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 Cards in the builder
The draft is written to this browser and nowhere else. No account, no upload, no analytics.
Opens the builder at #template=cards