6 Amazing Fonts for Your Next Resume

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3 min readOct 31, 2018

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1. San Francisco

San Francisco is a neo-grotesque sans-serif typeface made by Apple Inc. It was first released to developers on November 18, 2014. It is the first new typeface designed at Apple in nearly 20 years and has been inspired by Helvetica and FF DIN. — Wikipedia

Resume example: Yannick Zanfack

Kleiner Perkins Design Fellow and a current Product Design Intern @ Nextdoor.

2. Circular

Circular is a geometric sans-serif typeface created by Swiss designer Laurenz Brunner and released through Lineto in 2013. Circular is Brunner’s second official release, the other being the well-received Akkurat. — typewolf.com

Resume example: Jess Tan

Jess is a Software Engineer at PayPal.

3. Akagi Pro

Akagi Pro font is a contemporary, clean, simple and friendly font designed by Neil Summerour.

Resume example: Jack Strachan

Jack is an Industrial Designer and UX designer. He is currently a User Experience Intern at Bosch Power Tools, Germany.

4. GT Sectra

GT Sectra is a calligraphic serif typeface designed by Marc Kappeler, Dominik Huber and Noël Leu. It was released through Grilli Type in 2014. The design combines the flow of a broad nib pen with the sharpness of a scalpel knife. The typeface is available in three subfamilies — GT Sectra, GT Sectra Fine and GT Sectra Display, with each available in five weights with matching italics.

— typewolf.com

Resume example: Martijn van den Broeck

Martijn is an Interaction Designer at Google in Paris. Former design intern at IDEO in San Francisco.

5. Muli

Muli is a minimalist Sans Serif. Muli is designed mainly for use as a display font but is useable as a text font too. Muli has been designed to be used freely across the internet by web browsers on desktop computers, laptops and mobile devices. — Google Fonts

Resume example: Sanat Rath

Sanat Rath lives in New York City and works at Google as a UX designer for Docs, Sheets & Slides.

6. Franklin Gothic

Franklin Gothic and its related faces are a large family of realist sans-serif typefaces developed by the type foundry American Type Founders and credited to its head designer Morris Fuller Benton. “Gothic” was a contemporary term meaning sans-serif. — Wikipedia

Resume example: Emme Clark

Emme is the found and product designer at Correlate. Formerly at Twitter and Inflection.

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