Minimal resume theme

Paper Plain

An intentionally ordinary paper resume with a modest serif name and clean sans body. Avoid ornaments, panels and icons; concentrate on comfortable line lengths and reliable pagination.

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Style: Minimal
Layout: Single column
Colour: Black and white
Used by: New
Made by: JSON Resume Team

Use Paper Plain

On jsonresume.org

In the editor, pick Paper Plain from the Theme menu and save. Your page at jsonresume.org/@you changes straight away.

Open the editor

No resume here yet? Start one in Paper Plain: 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": "paper-plain" }

Try it on your resume first

Add ?theme=paper-plain to your link, like jsonresume.org/@you?theme=paper-plain. Nothing is saved.

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With jsonresume.org connected, say “Switch my resume theme to Paper Plain.”

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