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The Type group in Design controls how your text looks: the fonts, the text size and how tightly lines and sections are spaced. Five ready-made font pairings cover most resumes. If you need a specific font, Advanced lets you choose from about 500.

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Pick a font pairing

1

Open Type

In the editor, select Design (or press 2), then select Type in the row of links at the top of the panel.
2

Choose a pairing

Select one of the five pairings. The page updates straight away. Each pairing shows the fonts it uses next to its name.
The Type group showing five font pairings (Classic, Traditional, Balanced, Professional, Clean) with Balanced selected, a Custom row, the Text size slider at 10 pt with the hint 10 to 11 recommended, and Density set to Normal

The Type group with the Balanced pairing, 10 pt text and Normal density

A pairing sets body text in Regular and Bold, and headings in a single bolder weight. Tinos and Carlito match the widths of Times New Roman and Calibri, so they suit employers who expect a traditional look. If your resume uses fonts that aren’t one of the pairings, no pairing is selected and the Custom row shows your current fonts instead.

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Set the text size

Drag the Text size slider. It goes from 9 pt to 12.5 pt in half-point steps, and the current value shows on the right. Headings grow and shrink with it, keeping the same proportion to the body text. The panel suggests 10–11 pt, which reads comfortably on screen and on paper.
Dragging a slider counts as one change, so a single ⌘ Z (Ctrl Z on Windows and Linux) undoes the whole drag.

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Choose a density

Density sets the line height of your body text and the vertical spacing in and between entries: If you set an exact body line height or Spacing (Vertical) in Advanced that doesn’t match one of these, no density is selected.

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Use any font

1

Open the font editor

Select the Custom row under the pairings. Design opens Advanced and moves you to its Typography editor, with the body font picker ready.
2

Choose a body font

Open Font Family under Body and type part of a font’s name to search. Each font is shown in its own typeface. Choose one to apply it.
3

Choose a heading font

Do the same under Heading.
The Typography editor with the body Font Family picker open, the search box containing Merri, and the results Merriweather and Merriweather Sans each drawn in its own font

Searching the body font list in Advanced → Typography

The list contains Google Fonts plus the PDF standard fonts Helvetica, Courier and Times-Roman. Fonts for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hebrew and Thai text are included, and missing characters fall back to a matching Noto font so they still print.

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Exact typography settings

Advanced → Typography has the same fields for Body and Heading, plus one Hyphenation switch for both:
The Typography editor's Body fields: Font Family set to Source Sans 3, Font Weights set to 400, 700, and Font Size set to 10 pt

The body fields in Advanced → Typography

The Text size slider in Type only goes from 9 to 12.5 pt. If you type a size outside that range in Advanced, the slider stops at its nearest end but your exact size is kept.
Cover letters have the same Type controls in their own Design mode, without the Custom row. See Writing a cover letter.