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Print black and white
Tuned for a laser printer with no colour cartridge. The accent becomes near-black, the hairlines thicken to survive a toner drum, and the structure is carried by rules and square bullets rather than by hue. It is the most conservative document in the set and the hardest to fault.
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
- print-bw
- Sheet
- Letter, 8.5 × 11 in
- Margins
- 0.55 in on all four sides
- Body
- 11.73 pt, 1.28 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
- 80 characters, about 40 em, capped and centred
- Name
- 22.88 pt
- Section headings
- Capitals, 14.08 pt, 0.10 em tracking, over a 0.75 pt rule
- Section gap
- 11 pt. Entry gap 5.87 pt.
- Bullets
- Filled square, 1.88 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
- #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
- A laser printer, a fax, a copy shop, or any route where the file passes through a monochrome device.
- Applications that ask for a plain document, which is most government and large-enterprise forms.
- People who print their resume. It is the preset whose hairlines are thickened for toner rather than for glass.
- Situations where the accent colour in your model is a preference rather than an identity.
Bad at
- A screen. It is the least interesting page to look at and gives nothing back for that.
- Any employer expecting a house style. This is deliberately generic, which is the point and occasionally the problem.
- Colour printing, where a tinted box would have helped and the registry will not draw one.
- Readers who skim for structure. Square bullets are a strong signal to stop and read, which is what you want from a paper and the wrong instinct on a screen.
ATS profile
Clean
The safest document in the set. One column, no tables, no text boxes, no images, no colour, and a section heading alone on its own line above a rule.
Every item on the published Greenhouse failure list is absent, and the page adds nothing a parser has to work around. The Taleo notes make the same case in five items.
A caveat worth stating: the preset is safe, the sentences are not. A clean layout with a placeholder employer is still a document a parser discards.
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.
Aisha Khan
Civil Engineer
- aisha.khan@example.com
- +1 313 555 0164
- Detroit, Michigan
Experience
Great Lakes Infrastructure LLC
2020 – Present
Civil Engineer II · Detroit, MI
- Designed four culvert replacements; two came in under budget.
- Managed a $2.1M resurfacing package on two state trunk roads.
Wexler Consulting
2017 – 2020
Civil Engineer I · Ann Arbor, MI
- Ran utility relocation for eleven road projects.
Great Lakes Civil, Ann Arbor, MI
2015 – 2017
Civil Engineer I
- Ran utility relocation for eleven road projects.
- Drafted the sheet index for six plan sets.
Education
Michigan State University
2013 – 2017
B.S. Civil Engineering
Registration
- Michigan P.E., 2020
Skills
- Design
- Hydraulics, culverts, stormwater
- Software
- MicroStation, Civil 3D, HEC-RAS
Professional
- Michigan P.E., 2020
- OSHA 30-hour construction, 2019
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