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Two thirds
A one-third reference column and a two-thirds main column, set in Garamond at thirteen point. The page is split like a book: what you look up on the left, what you read on the right.
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
- thirds
- Sheet
- Letter, 8.5 × 11 in
- Margins
- 0.55 in on all four sides
- Body
- 12.80 pt, 1.4 line height
- Face
- Garamond, web-safe. Corrected for optical size: 10.5 pt of Garamond reads like 10.5 pt of the system face.
- Line length
- The full sheet. Two columns halve it, so the split does the measuring.
- Name
- 24.96 pt
- Section headings
- Title case, 17.51 pt, no rule
- Section gap
- 12 pt. Entry gap 6.40 pt.
- Bullets
- En dash, 2.05 pt between them
- Columns
- Two. A 35% rail carrying summary, skills, languages, interests, certifications.
- 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
- Translators, academics and anyone with a genuine two-population document: the reference material and the work.
- A reader who reads. Garamond at this size is a reading face, not a scanning one.
- A PDF on screen, where the split is elegant and the serif holds up at any zoom.
- Documents where the reference material is long enough to justify its own column.
Bad at
- Parsed applications. Two columns, and the reason is the same as for every split preset.
- A short reference list. A one-third column holding two lines is a column of whitespace.
- Screening. A serif at thirteen point with a one-third rail is a page built to be read, and a stack of resumes is not read.
- The United Kingdom and the United States, where the sheet is Letter and the split has less room for the main column.
ATS profile
Visual only
Two columns, so the standing objection applies: a text extractor reads the reference column before the roles, so the section it identifies as the summary is the one with the languages list in it. Greenhouse names the columned layout and the Taleo notes make the same point.
The serif is not part of the problem. Georgia, Palatino and Garamond all parse exactly as well as a sans, because a parser reads characters and not styles.
If the book-like feel is what you want, regent is the same reading face in one column.
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.
Camille Aubert
Literary Translator
- camille.aubert@example.com
- +33 4 55 55 01 66
- Lyon, France
Languages
- French (native)
- German (professional)
- English (professional)
- Italian (working)
Fields
- Literary fiction
- Essays and memoir
- Poetry
Awards
- Prix Marguerite Audoux, 2021
- Schlegel-Tieck Prize shortlist, 2019
Selected translations
Teaching
- Atelier de traduction, Lyon 2, 2018 – present
Profile
Literary translator, fourteen years, mostly from German and Italian. Fifteen books published, three of them prize-worn.
Experience
Independent
2012 – Present
Literary Translator · Lyon
- Fifteen translated books, 2012 to date, four languages.
Editions Verdier
2008 – 2012
Editor, translated fiction · Paris
- Commissioned and edited 22 titles.
Editions du Seuil, Paris
2004 – 2008
Editor, translated fiction
- Commissioned and edited 14 titles.
- Built the imprint’s German list from nothing.
Education
Université Lyon 2
2004 – 2006
M.A. Comparative Literature
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