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Gone are the days of boring, wordy resumés. Your CV is a chance to show off your skills, summarize your accomplishments, and convey your personal brand. And fonts are an essential part of any design.

We've curated a selection of our free resumé templates with great font combinations and content styles to get you started. Feel like you need a bold, fun resumé? Try a template from the Creative section. Looking for something more conventional? Or contemporary and clean more your style? Try one the templates in the Traditional or Modern sections. Just click on any of the templates to get started editing and making it your own! Happy job hunting!

Creative Résumés

These creative templates are great for standing out and showing off your personality with cool layouts, bold color palettes, and impactful sans serif fonts (and one cool slab serif) you’re sure to be noticed.

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Header: Source Sans Pro, Subhead: Bellfort, Body: Source Sans Pro

Header: League Gothic, Subhead: League Gothic, Body: Lato Bold

Header: Nexa Rust, Subhead: Lato Bold, Body: Futura PT

Header: Bellfort Thin, Subhead: Bellfort Thin, Body: Lato

Header: Myriad Hebrew, Subhead: Montserrat, Body: Montserrat

Header: Bellfort Thin, Subhead: Lato Light, Body: Futura PT

SAMANTHA SPARK Best Fonts for Your Résumé
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Pink and Yellow Graphic Designer Resume Best Fonts for Your Résumé
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Multicolored Teacher Resume Best Fonts for Your Résumé
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Blue and Violet Professional Resume Best Fonts for Your Résumé
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CHARLIE<BR>DOPPIC Best Fonts for Your Résumé
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Modern Résumés

The perfect mix of sophistication and confidence. Using clean sans serifs, infographics and effective pops of color, these modern résumé templates will help you nail that first impression.

Fonts used (left > right)

Header: Bungee Regular, Subhead: Lato Bold, Body: Futura PT

Header: Bebas Neue, Subhead: Source Sans Pro, Body: Futura PT

Header: Raleway Heavy, Subhead: Raleway, Body: Raleway

Header: Bellfort, Subhead: Bellfort Thin, Body: Lato Light

Header: Bebas Neue, Subhead: Abril Fatface, Body: Lato

Header: League Gothic, Subhead: Lato Black Italic, Body: Futura PT

JAMES Best Fonts for Your Résumé
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Red and White, Light Toned Modern Senior Graphic Designes Resume Best Fonts for Your Résumé
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Blue Industrial Designer Resume with Woman Best Fonts for Your Résumé
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Modern Writer Resume Best Fonts for Your Résumé
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Black and White Journalist Resume Best Fonts for Your Résumé
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Infographic Resume Best Fonts for Your Résumé
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Traditional Résumés

If it’s a traditional look you’re going after, try one of these templates. Using elegant serif fonts with subtle and color palettes, your résumé will say “I’m professional and know my stuff”. Get cracking!

Fonts used (left > right)

Header: Abril Fatface, Subhead: Voltaire, Body: Lato Italic

Header: Playfair, Subhead: Playfair, Body: Playfair

Header: Harman Sans, Subhead: Montserrat, Body: Raleway

Header: Lora, Subhead: Lato, Body: Futura PT

Header: PT Mono, Subhead: PT Mono, Body: Lora

Header: Old Standard, Subhead: Source Sans Pro, Body: Old Standard

Black and White Nathan Grant Resume Best Fonts for Your Résumé
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Modern Civil Engineer Resume Best Fonts for Your Résumé
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White and Grey Professional Resume Best Fonts for Your Résumé
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White and Blue Accountant Resume Best Fonts for Your Résumé
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Violet and Grey Professional Resume Best Fonts for Your Résumé
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Black and White Professional Resume Best Fonts for Your Résumé
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How to Talk Type: 4 Styles of Script Fonts to Know

  1. Formal

    Formal script styles originate from the 17th century. Most letters have strokes that join them together and they tend to be maximalist, curly and include extra flourishes.

  2. Casual

    Casual scripts are designed to look relaxed and more informal. Think handwritten fonts or brush fonts. Usually each character will connect to the next (like cursive) but that’s not a hard and fast rule.

  3. Calligraphic

    Calligraphic scripts can have connected letters or not. They generally look like they have been written with a flat tipped writing implement but can also resemble brush strokes.

  4. Blackletter

    Blackletter, or Gothic as they’re also known, are typefaces that are recognizable by their dramatic thick and thin strokes. They were first used for typesetting in the 16th century. Common uses for Blackletter fonts are not very easy to read as body copy so common uses are for logos (think newspaper logos), diplomas or posters.

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