Layout is structure, style is surface
The editor gives you two independent choices:
- Layout decides how content is arranged: how many columns, what sits where, how entries are grouped.
- Style decides how it looks: accent color, typefaces, rules, density.
Changing style doesn't rearrange the structure, and changing layout doesn't lose content. Mix them freely and switch as often as you like.
The four layouts
Resume Clean — single column, top to bottom. Even information density, hardest to get wrong, and currently the only layout that supports one-click PDF download. When there's a lot of content, this one holds up best.
Timeline — also single column, with a rule running down the left edge of the entries. Good when the sequence of roles is itself the story.
Two-column — a narrow sidebar for contact details and skills, a wide main column for experience and education. Good when you have many short items to place and want more on one page. The sidebar straightens into a single column when printed.
Header-spanning — your name runs the full page width, and the columns start below it. Good when you want the name and headline to carry more weight than a sidebar allows.
How to choose
A few practical rules:
- Long entries, dense content → single column (Resume Clean or Timeline). Two columns narrow each side and force long sentences to wrap constantly.
- Many skills, certifications, awards → two-column or header-spanning. Short items belong in the narrow column; the main column stays for experience.
- You want the one-click English PDF → Resume Clean. It's the only one that supports it today.
- The career path is the point → Timeline.
- Undecided → Resume Clean. It's the least demanding about what you put in it.
Is switching safe
Yes. A layout is one arrangement of the same content. Switching doesn't touch what you wrote, and your chosen style follows you across.
Filling everything in first and then clicking through all four is usually faster than trying to decide in advance. The preview updates as you go.
Certifications and awards
On layouts where the page is wide enough, list-style sections — certifications, awards, anything one or two lines per item — arrange themselves into two columns and take up half the height. In a narrow column, or on a phone, they fall back to one.
This happens on its own. There's no setting.