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Modern
The same single column with a different set of decisions: title-case section headings with no rule under them, a colour accent you can change in Design, and a lot more air between sections. It reads calmer than the default and gives up about a fifth of the page for it.
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
- modern
- Sheet
- Letter, 8.5 × 11 in
- Margins
- 0.7 in on all four sides
- Body
- 11 pt, 1.44 line height
- Face
- System UI, web-safe. The reference face, at its own point size.
- Line length
- 74 characters, about 37 em, capped and centred
- Name
- 21.45 pt
- Section headings
- Title case, 15.05 pt, no rule
- Section gap
- 20 pt. Entry gap 9 pt.
- Bullets
- Filled disc, 1.76 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
- #3a35bd, 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 has been handed a wall of text. The air between sections is what makes it skimmable.
- Designers, researchers and product people, where a page with a point of view reads as deliberate.
- Roles where the summary carries the argument and you want the eye to land on it first.
- Colour printing and colour screens, where the accent looks the way it is meant to.
Bad at
- The second page. Twenty points of air between every section is a real cost and you pay it twice.
- A monochrome printer. The accent is the whole identity here and it greys out to a mid grey.
- Very long careers, where density is the point.
- Fields that read a resume as a document rather than a signal. A colour does not say anything an editor could not.
ATS profile
Clean
Structurally it is the same document as the default: one column, no tables, no text boxes, no images, and every section heading standing alone on its own line.
Colour is the only thing it adds, and that is a print question rather than a parsing one. A text extractor reads the heading above the accent as text and keeps going.
If you do not know whether an applicant tracking system will read the file, the ATS guide is the place to start.
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.
Tomas Brandt
Senior Software Engineer
- tomas.brandt@example.com
- +49 30 5550 8812
- Berlin, Germany
Profile
Backend engineer, nine years, mostly payments infrastructure. Go and Postgres, with a bias for anything that has to reconcile.
Experience
Feldmann Zahlungsdienste GmbH
2022 – Present
Senior Software Engineer · Berlin
- Led the ledger rewrite that removed a nightly reconciliation job.
- Cut p99 authorisation latency from 900 ms to 180 ms over two releases.
- Introduced contract tests; three payment incidents were caught before release.
Stadtsparkasse Online Services
2019 – 2022
Backend Engineer · Berlin
- Migrated 40 endpoints off a monolith to Go with no customer-visible downtime.
Adyen, Amsterdam
2016 – 2019
Backend Engineer
- Owned the settlement batch that reconciled 40 partner banks.
Skills
- Languages
- Go, Python, SQL
- Systems
- PostgreSQL, Kafka, Terraform
Education
Technische Universität Berlin
2009 – 2013
B.Sc. Computer Science
Languages
- German (native)
- English (fluent)
- French (working)
Use this template
Opens the builder on Modern 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 Modern in the builder
The draft is written to this browser and nowhere else. No account, no upload, no analytics.
Opens the builder at #template=modern