Not a creative, but looking for advice— I can’t find the perfect typeface for my resume. Anyone have any suggestions?

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Wingdings Condensed

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Don't pick something 'creative.' Pick something modern, clean and easily read: Brandon Grotesque, Raleway, Dense, Helvetica Neu, Ditot, Proxima....

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Comic Sans.

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Papyrus

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I used Avenir. Looks clean, simple, and modern. Doesn’t look fancy, just professional

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Try Gotham. It is a superfamily with a lot of weights, which will allow you to create clear typographic hierarchy in your resume by just using Gotham (i.e. Not needing to mix too many typefaces.)

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Bleeding Cowboy for your header. It will show personality.

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In seriousness, try Gotham or Helvetica with different weights.

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Thank you! I like proxima nova the best from the suggestions. Is it overused on resumes?

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Karla is my new fave

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Proxima is a free Helvetia. You’re fine

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I use hobo, papyrus and comic sans. Randomly

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I used calibri and thought it looked good. What do you think??

OP, I think Proxima Nova is a good choice, I also like Aviner, Helvetica, Gotham... all those are used often but for a resume you don't want your fonts to stand out. It just needs to do its job, be clean and legible.

Good luck on the resume, and the upcoming job search?

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You can get creative with the header. Just keep the rest of the text simple.

You can get creative with the header. Just keep the rest of the text simple.

You can get creative with the header. Just keep the rest of the text simple.

Try Archer

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