Crisp
classicClean single column on a white page — Lato throughout, centered section titles above fine rules, and compact roles that carry their location beside the company
- Single column
- No photo slot
- Letter and A4
- Extraction certified
The collection · 36 designs
Pick the shape first.
The rest is your story.
Every design below is the real document the builder opens, shown with sample content. The facts on each card come from the template itself: how many columns, whether there is a photo slot, which paper sizes, and what our own hiring-software test found.
Chapter 01
Five collections, grouped by the shape of the page rather than by adjectives. Each card states what the design declares about itself, names the guide that explains it, and opens the builder with that design already chosen.
Collection 01 · 11 designs
Most careers, every application route. One column, one reading order. The shape a job portal reads the same way you do.
Clean single column on a white page — Lato throughout, centered section titles above fine rules, and compact roles that carry their location beside the company
Friendly modern single column — Inter throughout, centred section titles between side rules, company-first roles, and skills in a three-column grid
Ledger classic — every date sits in a left gutter beside its role, with Playfair headings over a Source Sans body and solid section rules
Editorial resume with a serif signature, compact letterhead and aligned experience dates
Bold single-column resume — an uppercase Montserrat masthead over a rule-bracketed contact bar, with skills in a three-column grid
Skills-first single column for a career change or a return to work — grouped competencies lead, roles follow in compact support
ATS caution: Photo. Some ATS misread these. Use a single-column template for online applications.
Also opens
Centred classic single-column resume: a Baskerville name, section titles between hairlines, one-line job headings with dates on the right, and skills in three columns
Ruled corporate single-column resume: an Arial-metric page in one ink, section titles on hairline rules, company-first job heads and a certifications table
Centred corporate single-column resume in Carlito: bold capital section titles on 2px rules, bulleted skill lines and an additional-information block
Plain corporate single-column resume in Carlito: an italic capital contact line, inline company and title heads joined by pipes, credentials on one line each
Education-first single-column resume for graduates: Arimo throughout, section titles in centred bold capitals under full-width rules, one-line job headings with bold dates
Collection 02 · 8 designs
Law, government, finance, research. Serif pages that look printed rather than designed. Still one column, still one reading order.
Traditional single column — a centred Playfair name over comma-separated contacts, underlined section titles, and skills grouped by category
Strict single-column, monochrome serif resume for federal, legal and traditional-industry applications. Standard section headings, explicit month-and-year dates, no photo, icons or colour.
Print classic single-column — EB Garamond throughout, small-caps section titles over hairline rules, burgundy accent
Academic CV: single-column, ink-only, education-first, with citation-style publications and conference sections designed to run many pages
Filled in
Editorial single-column resume with a large Garamond name, an italic title, section titles that trail a hairline and a warm paper tone
LaTeX classic single-column resume: Computer Modern throughout, a centred small-caps name, section titles over a rule, four-corner entry heads and black ink only
LaTeX graduate single-column resume: Computer Modern throughout, a centred small-caps name, education first with honours on the degree line, projects with their stack on the title row, black ink only
LaTeX dense single-column resume: a 14px Computer Modern body, a centred small-caps name with a header note, title-first entry heads with topic headings, one-line degrees and black ink only
Collection 03 · 3 designs
Directors, vice presidents and executives. Letterhead presence and experience-first ordering. Two of the three carry a sidebar, so read the note on each.
Executive single-column resume with a display serif name, bronze labels, fine rules, and a single reading column
Executive sidebar resume — a dark teal rail carrying photo and skills beside serif headings and a contact line that appears exactly once
ATS caution: Sidebar layout, Photo, Skill graphics. Some ATS misread these. Use a single-column template for online applications.
Warm executive sidebar resume — a charcoal rail with proficiency bars, burnt-ember section rules, and Source Serif headings
ATS caution: Sidebar layout, Photo, Skill graphics. Some ATS misread these. Use a single-column template for online applications.
Collection 04 · 11 designs
When a person, not a portal, will read the PDF. A rail for photo, contact details and skills beside the main story. Some hiring software reads the rail into the main column.
Two-column resume with a left profile rail — photo, contacts, a plain skills list and language level bars — with the name and roles in the main column
ATS caution: Sidebar layout, Photo, Skill graphics. Some ATS misread these. Use a single-column template for online applications.
Calm clinical two-column resume — a soft teal rail for photo and skill bars, Rubik headings, and a dotted timeline down the roles
ATS caution: Sidebar layout, Photo, Skill graphics. Some ATS misread these. Use a single-column template for online applications.
Two-column resume in violet — a left rail of skill bars grouped by category, Source Sans throughout, and certifications spelled out in full
ATS caution: Sidebar layout, Photo, Skill graphics. Some ATS misread these. Use a single-column template for online applications.
Analyst two-column resume in steel blue — a right-hand profile rail for photo and a plain skills list, Montserrat headings with left-border titles
ATS caution: Sidebar layout, Photo, Skill graphics. Some ATS misread these. Use a single-column template for online applications.
Sidebar resume with a tinted left rail — contact, skill and language bars, credentials — and a one-line job header in the main column
ATS caution: Sidebar layout, Photo, Skill graphics. Some ATS misread these. Use a single-column template for online applications.
Two-column resume with a column-aligned header — photo and contacts on the left, name and title beside them — and key achievements laid out as a grid
ATS caution: Sidebar layout, Photo, Skill graphics. Some ATS misread these. Use a single-column template for online applications.
Two-column resume with spacious experience and achievement entries, grouped skills and a concise supporting sidebar
ATS caution: Sidebar layout, Skill graphics. Some ATS misread these. Use a single-column template for online applications.
Two-column resume with a quiet white rail behind a hairline: a serif name, contact stacked on the right, skills with inline labels and languages as words
ATS caution: Sidebar layout. Some ATS misread these. Use a single-column template for online applications.
Portrait-rail resume: your photo at the top of a warm paper rail with skills and credentials, beside a large serif name, one contact line and your story on white
ATS caution: Sidebar layout, Photo, Skill graphics. Some ATS misread these. Use a single-column template for online applications.
Two-column resume that opens with a strip of four headline numbers under the name, then the story on the left and a quiet skills rail on the right
ATS caution: Sidebar layout. Some ATS misread these. Use a single-column template for online applications.
Two-column timeline resume: jobs on a hairline timeline with the dates above each role, and a right rail for skills and credentials
ATS caution: Sidebar layout, Skill graphics. Some ATS misread these. Use a single-column template for online applications.
Collection 05 · 3 designs
Technology, product, marketing and creative work. Roles on one side, proof on the other. Two balanced columns that some hiring software flattens into one.
Two-column resume with a proof column — achievement cards, skill tags and interests on the right, roles on a timeline on the left
ATS caution: Two-column layout, Photo, Skill graphics. Some ATS misread these. Use a single-column template for online applications.
Two-column resume in antique gold — plain uppercase titles, skills grouped into chips, and languages drawn as proficiency donuts
ATS caution: Two-column layout, Photo, Skill graphics. Some ATS misread these. Use a single-column template for online applications.
Bold two-column resume — Oswald section titles in filled bars over a navy proof column, with skills grouped into level bars
ATS caution: Two-column layout, Photo, Skill graphics. Some ATS misread these. Use a single-column template for online applications.
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60 guides. Each names the design it opens.
Chapter 02
Layout decides most of it. A single column has one reading order; a rail or a second column asks the machine to guess. Below is what each design declares about its own structure, and which designs we have exported and measured.
What each layout declares
Each template declares a layout parse score for its structure: 90 for a single column, 85 for two balanced columns, 80 for a sidebar. It rates the shape of the page, not your content and not your odds.
One reading order, top to bottom.
Axiom · Brief · Campus · Catalyst · Charter · Cornerstone · Crisp · Folio · Keystone · Lemma · Lucid · Meridian · Regent · Scholar · Slate · Tenure · Thesis · Valor · Verso · Zenith
A rail that some hiring software reads into the main column.
Aspect · Atlas · Ember · Frost · Harbor · Impact · Maven · Onyx · Orbit · Ridge · Studio · Summit · Vector
Two columns that some hiring software flattens into one.
Cascade · Nova · Prism
What we measured
For each of them we exported a real PDF filled with a dense sample resume and ran it through the same text reader our ATS checker uses. The test records that every section came back intact, on Letter paper, issued Oct 17, 2026. It measures one sample, not your document, and no vendor’s live system.
Not tested yet: Catalyst, Maven, Orbit, Regent, Scholar, Valor, Verso, Zenith. Their layout facts above still come from the designs themselves.
Word export: Meridian and Regent keep their layout in the .docx file, backed by a certification. Every other design exports Word as a clean single-column file on purpose.
Chapter 03
Every resume example on this site is a fictional person rendered in one of these designs. Here is one example for each design in the example pool; each guide page lists every career shown in its design, out of 326 example resumes.
In AspectBiologistOpen the example
In CascadeAcademic AdvisorOpen the example
In CornerstoneActorOpen the example
In CrispActuaryOpen the example
In EmberCarpenterOpen the example
In FrostAccounts Payable SpecialistOpen the example
In LucidAdministrative AssistantOpen the example
In NovaAerospace EngineerOpen the example
In OnyxBaristaOpen the example
In PrismAuditorOpen the example
In RidgeChemistOpen the example
In ScholarCollege ProfessorOpen the exampleChapter 04 · Use it now
Pick any design above and the builder opens on it. Switch designs later without retyping a word; your content stays, only the shape changes.