Does anyone know of any good fonts for resumes? I am going to write one soon and I would like it so that it looks neat and that it's something I personally enjoy looking at too. Preferably, the font should be free, but if not, I would like a more well-known and accessible font.
On my resume I use Futura Bold Condensed and Futura Light Condensed. I think the two have a nice contrast with each other. Just make sure it's easy to read.
Sabon, Miller Text, Adobe Garamond, Adobe Caslon, ITC Galliard are great, classic choices.
Here's a beautiful resume set completely in ITC Galliard for inspiration:
I think sheared-wedge-serif fonts tends to strike
the best balance of readable, friendly and serious.
hhp
Choose a legible serif face with a hint of character that subtly conveys something about your personality. I don't really understand questions of this kind, because the question shouldn't be "what's a good font for a resume?" Any (readable, probably serif) font is good for a resume. The question is "what font fits my personality and image?" A resume is about subtly branding yourself, so choose something with a hint of you in it. I've recently designed some resumes for friends. I've used different typefaces for all of them. This reminds me a bit of the recent post on "what's a good font for a novel?" The only real answer to that is "what's the novel about?" So —
1. Of course the medium (resume, novel, etc.) determines to some extend what sorts of faces will work. You wouldn't set a novel entirely in Zapfino (usually), because the properties of a novel, such as type size and length of text, don't lend themselves to that font, and vice versa. In the case of resumes, the practical limitations are that it should be easily readable; have a professional, calm appearance, and have enough variants (or other faces) to serve the hierarchy. BUT —
2. The point of your design isn't to allude to the idea of a resume, and all the associations that entails, but to allude to yourself. You're not designing the medium, you're designing the message. So your question is really, What do I want my resume to say about me?
@ Joshua i am agree with you :)
Joshua, this is worth one undergraduate year of design course … :-)
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