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Letterpress
Tracked-out capitals on a double rule, set in Garamond at nearly fifteen point with a leading of 1.45. The largest type in the set and the most ceremony, and it is built for a profession that has been printing title pages for four hundred years.
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
- letterpress
- Sheet
- Letter, 8.5 × 11 in
- Margins
- 0.8 in on all four sides
- Body
- 13.41 pt, 1.42 line height
- Face
- Garamond, web-safe. Corrected for optical size: 11 pt of Garamond reads like 10.5 pt of the system face.
- Line length
- 72 characters, about 36 em, capped and centred
- Name
- 26.15 pt
- Section headings
- Capitals, 16.09 pt, 0.16 em tracking, over a 0.60 pt rule
- Section gap
- 22.10 pt. Entry gap 13 pt.
- Bullets
- None. Claims run flush as plain lines, 6.70 pt between them.
- Columns
- One. No column split, and no risk of a misread reading order.
- Arrangement
- double 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
- Professions with a printed tradition: law, academia, the clergy, publishing.
- A short document. At nearly fifteen point with a double rule, this page holds about a third of what a normal one does.
- A reader who reads slowly and is meant to. The leading and the point size are both generous.
- Print on cream stock, which is what this was drawn for.
Bad at
- A long career. This is a half-page page, and a half-page page is a page you have to lie about to fill.
- Parsed applications, where the widest line length in the set and the largest gaps both work against a naive extractor.
- Screening, badly. There is no visual hierarchy below the header, because everything is set the same way on purpose.
- A reader who has to find one thing on the page quickly, which this page is designed not to allow.
ATS profile
Clean
One column, no tables, no images, and a heading alone on its line, so the structure is the plainest it can be.
It is a caution rather than a clean pass for a specific and honest reason. Tracked-out capitals and a 0.06 em letter-spacing change the gaps between words, and a text extractor that guesses word boundaries from spacing will have a harder time here than on any other preset in the set. That is a weakness of naive extractors, not a published failure rate, and no vendor publishes a number.
For the same look without the tracking, academic is a serif CV in Times with a rule under every heading and nothing tracked out.
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.
Hugh Marchmont KC
Barrister
- hugh.marchmont@example.com
- +44 20 5550 0119
- London, United Kingdom
Profile
Barrister, twenty-one years, commercial litigation. About sixty cases a year, most of them resolved somewhere other than a courtroom.
Experience
Marchmont Chambers
2012 – Present
King’s Counsel · London
- Counsel in 40 commercial disputes, eight settled on the pleadings.
Rouse Court
2004 – 2012
Barrister · London
- Called to the bar, 2004. Junior counsel in 90 arbitrations.
Ellery Square Chambers, London
2000 – 2004
Junior Counsel
- Junior counsel in 40 arbitrations.
- Two years of pupillage on the commercial circuit.
Education
University College London
1997 – 2000
B.A. Law
Professional
- Called to the Bar, 2004
- Commercial Bar Association, 2004 – present
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