Just be sure to use the same font size for each type of information across your resume and make sure the relative sizes are logical. You can change it up to help make your important information-like section headings-stand out. Your font size doesn’t need to be uniform across your resume. This is the last thing you want and will likely land you in the no pile.” But if you go too small, Lucas says, “the recruiter will be squinting to read your resume. When choosing font sizes, you want to find a balance: “Too large a size and your resume is likely to be more than one page without necessarily having the years of experience to back up that resume length,” Yurovsky says.
Once you’ve decided between serif and sans serif, choosing a font comes down to which one looks best to you! But if the top of the T is a single line straight across, you have a sans serif font.
To figure out which type of font you’re looking at, check the capital Ts-if the top has short lines hanging down on either side, those lines are serifs.
But if you work in higher education or the medical field, a serif font like Georgia would be appropriate. If you want to make your resume look more modern (if, for example, you work in tech) you might choose a sans serif font like Arial or Calibri, and avoid serif fonts like Times New Roman and Georgia, says Muse career coach Debra Boggs. You might want to consider whether a serif or sans serif font is best for you. “The saying, ‘Dress for the job you want’ applies to font choice too!” Yurovsky says. Calibri alone has bitmaps specified for well over a thousand glyphs, for example.So how do you know which of these more traditional, easy-to-read fonts you should pick? That depends on your personal preference and what you think sends the right message for your resume. If you want the specifics, you can run the font through TTX and then find the table start, to see what's really going on. The easiest way to find out which fonts will do this is to simply check the font for an EBDT table at all - if there is one, this font will force engines to use bitmaps for very small (and sometimes very large) font sizes. It's one of those things that no one seems to document.