# Plainsong resume template

The plain format, set properly: a centred serif name, uppercase headings on a full rule, and nothing else on the page. Every millimetre goes to the words.

![A full résumé page in the Plainsong template: single column · bare · classic](https://resume4u.online/img/templates/plainsong.webp)

- Best for: Single column · Bare · Classic
- Layout: single column
- Photo: optional
- Exports: PDF (vector, selectable text), Word, JSON Resume
- Price: free, open source (AGPL-3.0); an account is required to save and sync resumes
- Privacy: PDF import, ATS analysis, editing, and exports run in your browser; resume documents sync through the Resume4U API
- Open in the editor: https://resume4u.online/app

## Everything on this design can be changed

Not quite right? Switch to any of 75 templates in one click, even after you have filled it in: your content stays, nothing is retyped. Colours, fonts, photo, columns and section styles change just as easily.

The picture is a starting point, not a fixed layout. Open the design and change any of this in the editor, with your own words on the page as you do; nothing needs retyping.

- Colours: the accent, heading, text, background and sidebar colours
- Fonts: heading, body and name typefaces, sizes, line height and letter spacing
- Header: photo or monogram on or off, the contact line’s style and whether it sits under, beside or above the name, or in the sidebar
- Section headings: rule, band, side heading and more, for every section at once or one at a time, with an optional icon
- Dates: at the right edge, before the entry, beside the title or in the company line
- Language levels, skill badges and link style
- One or two columns, the sidebar width, section order and which sections appear
- Spacing, margins and page size (A4 or US Letter), and Magic fit to keep it to one, two or three pages
- Switch to any of the other 74 designs at any time; your content comes with you

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