Template 22 of 59
Centred
Name, headline and contact all centred, over a rule under every section heading. Formal, symmetrical, and the one preset in the set where the header is the design.
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
- centred
- Sheet
- Letter, 8.5 × 11 in
- Margins
- 0.75 in on all four sides
- Body
- 12.60 pt, 1.4 line height
- Face
- Times New Roman, web-safe. Corrected for optical size: 11.5 pt of Times New Roman reads like 10.5 pt of the system face.
- Line length
- 74 characters, about 37 em, capped and centred
- Name
- 24.56 pt
- Section headings
- Title case, 15.72 pt, over a 1.08 pt rule
- Section gap
- 15 pt. Entry gap 8 pt.
- Bullets
- Filled square, 2.02 pt between them
- Columns
- One. No column split, and no risk of a misread reading order.
- Arrangement
- header set center.
- Photo
- None.
- Accent
- #151a23, forced to near-black by the print-safe setting
- Colour
- Print-safe. No fills, no hue, hairlines thickened for toner.
What it is for
Good at
- Roles with a formal application process, where a symmetrical page reads as an official document.
- Education and public sector, where centred letterheads are the convention rather than a choice.
- A short document, since the header takes up a third of the first screen.
- Print, where a centred page is the shape a reader expects from a formal letter.
Bad at
- Scanning. Centred text has a ragged left edge, and a ragged left edge is exactly what a six-second skim uses to find where to look.
- A long contact run, because a centred row of facts that wraps is worse than a left-aligned one that wraps.
- Anything modern. This is a letterhead, and reading it as a resume is a category error.
- Print with an even duplex copier, where the centring is the first thing to drift.
ATS profile
Clean
One column, no tables, no images, and a heading alone on its line. Centring is a text-align value and changes nothing about the order the DOM describes.
A text extractor is indifferent to alignment. It reads name, headline, contact, then the sections, in the order they appear in the document.
The honest criticism of this one is not a parsing one. It is that a ragged left edge is a real cost to a reader scanning a stack of pages.
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.
Margaret Ellery
Headteacher
- m.ellery@example.edu
- +1 617 555 0148
- Cambridge, Massachusetts
Profile
Headteacher, sixteen years in public education. Turned around a school that was on a watch list and kept it off one.
Experience
Cambridge Ridge High School
2016 – Present
Headteacher · Cambridge, MA
- Removed the school from state watch-list status in 2019 and kept it off since.
- Raised the four-year college attendance rate from 61% to 84%.
Northgate Public Schools
2010 – 2016
Deputy Head, Curriculum · Cambridge, MA
- Rebuilt the mathematics sequence across nine grade levels.
Cambridge Public Schools, Cambridge, MA
2010 – 2016
Deputy Head, Curriculum
- Rebuilt the mathematics sequence across nine grade levels.
Education
Harvard Graduate School of Education
2003 – 2005
M.Ed. Educational Leadership
Governance
- School Committee member, 2018 – present
Recognition
- National Board Certification, 2014
Use this template
Opens the builder on Centred 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 Centred in the builder
The draft is written to this browser and nowhere else. No account, no upload, no analytics.
Opens the builder at #template=centred