Classic resume templates

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What a serif face is actually doing

Nothing mechanical: a parser extracts serif and sans-serif identically, and no system has ever preferred one. What a serif face changes is register. It carries the conventions of printed documents — books, contracts, journals — and in fields whose working life is still made of those documents it reads as native rather than as a design decision.

It also holds up at small sizes on paper better than most sans faces, which matters if your resume is going to be printed and read across a table rather than scrolled.

Classic without looking dated

The difference between traditional and stale is spacing. A serif face set tight, with underlined headings and text running to the edge of the paper, is the look people mean when they say a resume looks old. The same face with generous line height, clear section separation and honest margins reads as considered.

That is why the templates here vary in heading treatment rather than in typeface — a rule, a band, small caps, or nothing at all. The typography is the constant; the structure is where you choose.

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