Garamond

I am using Garamond size 11 for my resume, with the parts in italics in a different font because Garamond looks weird in Italics. In my opinion, its the cleanest looking font when not italicized, but is this a bad idea to have two different fonts on one piece of paper?

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I would honestly just stick to one font. Or use a different generally accepted font that no one will balk at - times new roman, arial, trebuchet MS, etc.

No one will ding you for using garamond just because it looks weird italicized (I guess it looks a bit smaller, but not weird to me), and I don't think anyone's going to look at it and think "hey, this guy decided to use a different font to pair it nicely with garamond because garamond in italics looks weird". Conversely, someone very anal may find it strange someone is using two different fonts.

 

Alright cool thanks for the advice. I just think Times New Roman and the more traditional ones look so plain and elementary. What do you guys think about pulling my bullet points all the way to the left edge of my resume instead of indenting them (like the resume posted above has). I have been doing this and it fits a lot more text, but I see indented bullets so much that I think its more of a formality than anything else. Should I be doing this?

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I actually think the above resume looks weird with the indented bullet points. Mine are all the way to the left (or at least just a little bit of indenting)

 

Sorry to keep asking more questions, but what do you recommend the font size of your name at the top be if the rest of the document is size 11 (with section titles at 12)?

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Sorry to keep asking more questions, but what do you recommend the font size of your name at the top be if the rest of the document is size 11 (with section titles at 12)?

I keep mine at 14, but that's only because I have a lot of internship/work experience.

I'd say the max should be 18.

 

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