10 Best Font to Use on Your Resume

your resume or CV may be one of the most important project you ever design.

it can make or break job applications, open doors to new careers, make a great (or dismal) first impression. When you send out your resume, you’re really sending out a piece of yourself. So make sure it’s representing you to your best advantage. Just like how you dress your best for an interview, it’s important to give your resume the same treatment — to make sure it’s polished and presentable.

According to a study conducted by the job search site TheLadders.com, recruiters spend only about six seconds scanning a resume.

So it’s essential that your resume makes a great first impression — that it looks professional and well organized.

How do you do that?

You start by using a resume font people can actually read (that’s what this post is for), then you design a resume that stands out from the rest.

The Best Resume Fonts

1. Helvetica

One of the most famous font types among designers, and Helvetiva is perfect for use anywhere, whether it's in CV, Job application, Paper, Thesis or whatever. With a formal font style and neat make this font much in demand by job seekers.

2. Georgia

This font type reminds us of Times New Roman, it's just more elegant look does not seem rigid. Remarkably, every CV or Job Application written using this font will look neat and very suitable combined with the model and form CV or any work application.

3. Garamond
Almost like Georgia, it's just that Garamond has a more dynamic font style. Although impressed by the non-formal, but the font is quite have a high appeal to their readers

4. Calibri
Calibri is the font Microsoft officially implemented in Microsoft Office 2007 as a replacement of the old school font Times New Roman. Almost the same as Helvetica, Calibri is very suitable juxtaposed with various models of CV and Job Application.

5. Gill Sans
This simple, sophisticated sans-serif typeface, designed in England in the 1920s, will give your resume a look that is both classic and modern. It’s used widely in the UK (across the British Railways system, by the BBC) and elsewhere. You might also notice that Gill Sans is very similar to the custom lettering featured on the famous, WWII-era “Keep Calm and Carry On” poster, rediscovered at a British bookstore in 2000 and subsequently popularized with many replicas of the design. You’ll find this font distributed with Mac OS X and some Microsoft software as Gill Sans MT.

6. Cambria
Cambria, a serif font, is part of a suite of typefaces called the ClearType Font Collection, which has been widely distributed with Microsoft Office programs. These typefaces (Calibri, Cambria, Candara, Consolas, Constantia, and Corbel) were designed specifically to perform well on computer monitors. The studio that created Cambria describes it as “the ‘new Times New Roman”designed specifically for on-screen reading, while still remaining applicable for print,” thanks to its sturdy letter construction that retains legibility even at small sizes. This makes Cambria a good choice for both online and printed resumes.

7. Constantia
Constantia’s rounder letterforms make it look more friendly and less stuffy than many serif typefaces. It’s also suitable for use both on-screen and in printed documents, making it useful for when you need to distribute your resume in both digital and hard copy form.

8. Lato
Originally designed for corporate use, Lato is sans-serif font created to look neutral in body copy but have some unique traits at larger sizes. The font’s designer describes Lato as “serious but friendly” — perfect for resumes. It comes in a wide range of weights and styles, though the “hairline,” “thin,” and “light” weights will be too hard to see at small sizes.

9. Didot
Didot is a distinctive serif font with an upscale look (perhaps a product of its Parisian roots). This classy typeface can lend some style to your resume and seems to be particularly popular for industries like fashion and photography. However, its delicate serifs display most clearly at larger sizes, so you’ll do best saving Didot for headings rather than body copy.

10. Avenir
This versatile sans-serif font has a very clean, crisp appearance that will give any resume an updated look. It has multiple weights that you can use to differentiate the various sections and features of your resume, but you should probably avoid the “book” and “light” weights, as well as any condensed versions — they can be hard to read. Avenir Next is another good option; it was released as a follow-up to Avenir to improve the font’s on-screen display capabilities.