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High density
For a thirty-year career that will not fit on one page at 11pt. 9pt on a 50 em measure at a 1.16 leading, 3pt between jobs, a third of an inch of margin and the dates dropped into a hanging gutter so they cost no horizontal room. Roughly twice the content of the compact template on A4. Read it on a screen or at 100%: this is not a page to print at 60%.
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
- dense
- Sheet
- A4, 8.27 × 11.69 in
- Margins
- 0.35 in on all four sides
- Body
- 9 pt, 1.16 line height
- Face
- System UI, web-safe. The reference face, at its own point size.
- Line length
- 100 characters, about 50 em, capped and centred
- Name
- 17.55 pt
- Section headings
- Capitals, 10.80 pt, 0.10 em tracking, over a 0.36 pt rule
- Section gap
- 7.65 pt. Entry gap 4.50 pt.
- Bullets
- Filled square, 1.44 pt between them
- Columns
- One. No column split, and no risk of a misread reading order.
- Arrangement
- entry dates.
- 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
- Parsed applications: one column, no tables, no images, and a heading alone on its own line.
- A long career that has to stay on one sheet. 9 pt is a deliberate density, not an accident.
- About 100 characters a line, which is the wide end of what a page of prose can carry and fits a lot onto a sheet.
- Black and white printing. The builder already treats this preset as print-safe, so every fill and hue is gone.
- A document with a shape to it. The arrangement is named in the registry rather than bolted on in a stylesheet.
- A page size of A4, which is what most of the mail in that country is.
Bad at
- A reader who wants the layout to say something about them. It is a document, not a signal.
- Comfortable reading. 9 pt on a 100 character measure is the hardest thing on this page to read for long.
- Printing on the other sheet, which is one click in the builder and usually stays wrong.
- A house style of your own: this preset is the builder’s, not your organisation’s.
ATS profile
Clean
Structurally this is the plain case: one column, no tables, no text boxes, no images, and a section heading standing alone on its own line. Nothing on the published failure lists applies.
The arrangement does not change that. The dates move on the page but not in the document, so an extractor still reads the title before the range.
It is print-safe as well as clean, which is a stronger claim than most presets can make: no fills, no hue, and hairlines thickened for toner.
What no layout can do is make a parse correct. The ATS guide is blunt about this, and no vendor publishes an accuracy figure, so this page will not invent one.
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.
Alex Moreau
Operations Lead
- alex.moreau@example.com
- +1 617 555 0155
- Boston, Massachusetts
Profile
9pt on a 50 em measure with the years in a gutter. A career on a page. Nine years across distribution and light manufacturing, most of it spent on the unglamorous half of the job: getting a forecast, a rota and a supplier to agree with each other.
Experience
Harbourline Group
2020 – Present
Operations Lead · Boston, MA
- Rebuilt a weekly reporting process that two managers had been doing by hand.
- Cut order backlog 24% in the first two quarters.
- Moved four contract manufacturers onto a single inbound schedule.
Beacon Logistics
2017 – 2020
Operations Manager · Cambridge, MA
- Coordinated 300 weekly deliveries across six routes.
- Reduced overtime 16% by forecasting labour to the hourly dock queue.
Canton Freight Partners
2014 – 2017
Coordinator · Canton, MA
- Ran the day sheet for a 40-driver fleet.
Milton Supply Co.
2012 – 2014
Assistant Coordinator · Milton, MA
- First point of contact for 90 retail accounts.
Education
Boston College
2008 – 2012
B.A. Economics
Skills
- Methods
- Demand forecasting, slotting, dock scheduling
- Systems
- NetSuite, Excel, Power Query, Tableau
Use this template
Opens the builder on High density 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 High density in the builder
The draft is written to this browser and nowhere else. No account, no upload, no analytics.
Opens the builder at #template=dense