The Design tab of the Edit panel controls how your resume looks. Your content stays the same whatever you change here, and the preview updates as you go.

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What’s in the Design tab

The builder with the Design tab open in the Edit panel, showing the Template group at the top
The groups appear in this order. Use Collapse all groups / Expand all groups at the top of the panel to fold them.

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Layout

Layout decides which sections go on which page, and in which column. Each page is a card, Page 1, Page 2 and so on, with a Main column and, next to it, a Sidebar column. Drag a section by its handle to move it within a column, to the other column, or to another page. The order in each column is the order on the resume. Where the sidebar sits, left or right, depends on the template. Single-flow templates such as Ridge print the sidebar column’s sections after the main column.
To put a cover letter on its own page, add a page and drag the cover letter section onto it. See Adding a cover letter.
To move single items rather than whole sections, use Move to in the Edit tab. See Moving items between sections.

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Typography

Typography has two parts, Body for running text and Heading for headings such as section titles.
For body text, 10 to 11 pt with a line height around 1.4 to 1.5 reads well. Plain sans-serif or serif fonts are the safest choice for applicant tracking systems.

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Colors and levels

The Design group sets three colors:
  • Primary Color: accents such as headings, rules and icons, depending on the template. Pick one of 22 presets (Red, Orange, Blue, Slate and so on) or set your own.
  • Text Color: the main text.
  • Background Color: the page.
Each color has a color picker and a text field that takes an rgba(r, g, b, a) value. Level sets how skill and language levels are drawn. Choose a Type: Hidden, Circle, Square, Rectangle, Rectangle (Full Width), Progress Bar or Icon. For Icon, pick the icon to repeat in Icon.
Keep enough contrast between the text and background colors. Light text on a colored page is hard to read and may not print well.

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Resume language and app language

These are separate settings: A heading you renamed with Rename in the Edit tab keeps your wording in any resume language. New resumes, imports and duplicates start with the resume language set to your app language. If you write a resume in another language, or duplicate one that was in another language, set Language to match it.