Template 23 of 59
Flush
Hard left edge, no rules, no bullets, no colour. The only preset with Helvetica at its full size and nothing at all doing any work except setting the text.
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
- flush
- Sheet
- Letter, 8.5 × 11 in
- Margins
- 0.5 in on all four sides
- Body
- 11.73 pt, 1.4 line height
- Face
- Helvetica, web-safe. Corrected for optical size: 11 pt of Helvetica reads like 10.5 pt of the system face.
- Line length
- 84 characters, about 42 em, capped and centred
- Name
- 22.88 pt
- Section headings
- Title case, 16.05 pt, no rule
- Section gap
- 18 pt. Entry gap 10 pt.
- Bullets
- None. Claims run flush as plain lines, 5.87 pt between them.
- Columns
- One. No column split, and no risk of a misread reading order.
- Arrangement
- none rule under the header.
- 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
- Writing roles, where the writing is the work and the layout should not upstage it.
- A page that has to look identical in every renderer, because there is almost nothing in it to render differently.
- A monochrome printer, where a page with no fills and no rules is a page that cannot go wrong.
- A reader who has been trained to distrust a decorated page, which is most people who hire writers.
Bad at
- Screening, where a page with no markers gives a skimmer nowhere to stop.
- Technical work, where there is no line for a stack and no bullet to attach one to.
- A long document. Six roles of unbroken prose is six roles nobody will read.
- Print, where the lack of a rule at the header means the first section starts with no warning at all.
ATS profile
Clean
The plainest document in the set. One column, no tables, no images, no rules, no bullets, no colour, and a heading alone on its line.
There is a nice discipline in that: everything a parser can trip over has been removed, and nothing has been added to replace it. The claims run as consecutive lines, which is what they are.
The absence of rules also means the absence of a place a parser could think a block boundary is, which is a second, quieter reason it is safe.
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.
Wren Ashby
Copywriter
- wren.ashby@example.com
- +44 20 5550 0155
- London, United Kingdom
Profile
Copywriter, seven years in brand and editorial. Long sentences when the idea needs them, short ones when it does not.
Experience
Sable & Field
2022 – Present
Senior Copywriter · London
- Lead copy on three brand launches and the film for one of them.
Hollis Advertising
2019 – 2022
Copywriter · London
- Wrote and edited 300 product pages a year.
Pell & Ryle, London
2016 – 2018
Staff Writer
- Wrote and edited 300 product pages a year.
Education
University of Leeds
2012 – 2016
B.A. English
Recognition
- D&AD Graphite Pencil, 2020
- Copywriter of the Year, shortlist 2019
Languages
- English (native)
- French (conversational)
Use this template
Opens the builder on Flush 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 Flush in the builder
The draft is written to this browser and nowhere else. No account, no upload, no analytics.
Opens the builder at #template=flush