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Minimal
No bullets, no rules, no colour. The only preset that drops the bullet glyph entirely, which means the spacing between one claim and the next has to do the work a bullet was doing. It is the quietest page here and the hardest to skim.
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
- minimal
- Sheet
- A4, 8.27 × 11.69 in
- Margins
- 0.85 in on all four sides
- Body
- 11 pt, 1.55 line height
- Face
- System UI, web-safe. The reference face, at its own point size.
- Line length
- 70 characters, about 35 em, capped and centred
- Name
- 21.45 pt
- Section headings
- Title case, 15.05 pt, no rule
- Section gap
- 22 pt. Entry gap 11 pt.
- Bullets
- None. Claims run flush as plain lines, 5.50 pt between them.
- Columns
- One. No column split, and no risk of a misread reading order.
- Arrangement
- The plain stack. Nothing arranged, nothing drawn.
- Photo
- None.
- Accent
- #4d5666, 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 reader who scrolls properly. With no markers, a first pass in ten seconds finds very little.
- Portfolios where the work is shown elsewhere and the document is a footnote to it.
- Senior readers with a long history of reading exactly this page shape.
- Long-form, unhurried applications: a mission statement, a funding proposal, anything that is read rather than scanned.
Bad at
- Screening. Six seconds on a stack of resumes is the normal budget and this spends it.
- Anything technical. There is no line for tools, no line for a stack, and no marker to attach either to.
- A first impression. The page has no visual hook, which is a decision, not an oversight, and readers read it as one.
- Print, where A4 is the default and a page without a rule is a page a photocopier may eat the edge of.
ATS profile
Clean
Structurally the simplest document in the set: one column, no tables, no images, no boxes, and section headings that stand alone on their line.
The missing bullet is not a parse risk. A text extractor reads the claims as consecutive lines under one heading, which is what they are.
It is also not a fix for a weak document. The ATS guide is blunt about this: no layout makes a vague line specific, and parsers read sentences the same way a person does.
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.
Ines Karlsson
Editorial Designer
- ines.karlsson@example.com
- +46 8 555 0142
- Stockholm, Sweden
Profile
Editorial designer, eleven years with publishers and museums. Grid systems, type setting and the unglamorous work of making a quarterly book land on press on the date it was promised.
Experience
Halmgren & Vale
2019 – Present
Senior Designer · Stockholm
- Rebuilt the quarterly journal grid; production time halved.
- Set every title in the catalogue since 2020.
Nordiska museet
2016 – 2019
Designer · Stockholm
- Wall text and captions for fourteen exhibitions.
Bonniers Förlag, Stockholm
2016 – 2019
Art Director
- Ran a list of eleven imprints on one grid.
Education
Konstfack University of Arts
2012 – 2016
B.A. Graphic Design
Skills
- Type
- Adobe InDesign, fontspec, variable fonts
- Prepress, colour management, paper
Selected titles
Recognition
- Swedish Design Awards, 2020
- Type Directors Club, certificate 2018
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