Playful resume theme
Colour Pencil
Pencil-like red underlines and a warm serif identity give a personal stationery feel. Keep every mark decorative and all qualifications in crisp, selectable type.
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- Style
- Playful
- Layout
- Single column
- Colour
- Red and coral
- Used by
- New
- Made by
- JSON Resume Team
Use Colour Pencil
On jsonresume.org
In the editor, pick Colour Pencil from the Theme menu and save. Your page at jsonresume.org/@you changes straight away.
Open the editorNo resume here yet? Start one in Colour Pencil: upload the one you have or answer a few questions.
In your resume.json
Set the theme in meta, whether your resume lives here or in a GitHub gist:
resume.json
"meta": { "theme": "colour-pencil" }Try it on your resume first
Add ?theme=colour-pencil to your link, like jsonresume.org/@you?theme=colour-pencil. Nothing is saved.
Ask your AI assistant
With jsonresume.org connected, say “Switch my resume theme to Colour Pencil.”
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