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Marginalia
Section labels move out of the flow of their own entries and into a margin column on the left, with the content set in a wide column beside them. The DOM order is untouched, so an extractor sees exactly the stream it would see without the margin.
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
- marginalia
- Sheet
- Letter, 8.5 × 11 in
- Margins
- 0.5 in on all four sides
- Body
- 10.50 pt, 1.36 line height
- Face
- Segoe UI, web-safe. The reference face, at its own point size.
- Line length
- 88 characters, about 44 em, capped and centred
- Name
- 20.47 pt
- Section headings
- Title case, 14.36 pt, no rule
- Section gap
- 16 pt. Entry gap 8 pt.
- Bullets
- En dash, 1.68 pt between them
- Columns
- One. No column split, and no risk of a misread reading order.
- Arrangement
- headings in a left margin column.
- Photo
- None.
- Accent
- #232936, 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 page with many short sections, where a label in the margin is easier to find than a heading you have to scroll back to.
- Analytical and editorial writing, where the structure of the argument is itself part of the argument.
- One column of content with a reference margin, which keeps the text at a readable measure.
- Print, where a margin column is a thing letterpress does well.
Bad at
- A screen narrower than about 900 px, where a nine-em margin column is a column of one word per line. The builder drops the margin on narrow screens and so does the preview.
- Sections with a single long paragraph, where the label sits beside the only line of text on the page.
- A short document, where the margin column is a third of the page for five words.
- Print on a small sheet, where a 9 em margin and a 40 em measure leave the content column narrow.
ATS profile
Clean
One column of text, no tables, no images, and a heading that is still the first child of its section. The margin is a grid placement, and grid placement is a visual arrangement, not a change of order.
This is the one structural preset where the honest claim is strong: the DOM is untouched, so a text extractor reads name, then heading, then the entries under it, in the order they appear in the source. The ATS guide makes the same point about reading order.
It is worth knowing that naive extractors which reconstruct structure from pixel geometry can disagree. That is a hypothetical about badly written software, and no vendor publishes a figure either way, so this page will not put a number on it.
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.
Rosa Delgado
Investigative Journalist
- rosa.delgado@example.com
- +34 91 555 0142
- Madrid, Spain
Profile
Investigative journalist, twelve years. Public-interest work mostly, which pays slowly and prints slowly.
Reporting
El Faro Independiente
2019 – Present
Investigative Reporter · Madrid
- Four investigations published, two of them acted on by regional courts.
Agencia Europa
2014 – 2019
Correspondent · Brussels
- Covered EU transport policy for five years.
Politica Europa, Brussels
2011 – 2014
Correspondent
- Covered EU transport and energy policy for three years from Brussels.
Awards
Asociación de-Periodistas de Madrid
2021
Premio de Periodismo de Investigación
Education
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
2011 – 2013
M.A. Journalism
Languages
- Spanish (native)
- English (fluent)
- French (professional)
- Portuguese (working)
Training
- European Press Centre fellowship, 2015
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