Is Times New Roman still the resume standard?

I believe that a variety of “standard” fonts have been ok for a while now, though TNR is probably the most common (or at least one of the top 3). Calibri, Ariel, Helvetica, Tamoha, Courier New, Times New Roman – all fine. While I’m sure graphic designers can tell them apart, I really can’t, and I think so long as it’s plain and very legible, the person reading your resume isn’t going to spend time going “Now, is that Calibri, or a smaller Veranda?”. This is all assuming your aren’t applying for a graphic designer job, because if you were, you’d have a full song on which font to use, with the chorus being “Not Comic Sans”.

It’s all about the Comic Sans. ;)

TNR is boring… What stands out to you as something that you feel represents yourself?

I like Calibri for email communication but idk about having it on a resume….

Calibri is pretty common now, I think. I’m still a fan of Wingdings for all of my important documents.

waves fist in air comic SAAAAAAANS!

It depends on what of Word document you have. On mine, Calibri is the default. I think there is some way to set Times New Roman as your default, because I never use Calibri. It’s just not the same. If you had an older version of Word, Times New Roman is the preset.

Does that answer your question?

@abysmalbeauty I like Calibri except some of the spacing between words is odd. I do find it easy to read.

What represents me? Funny, I went through this recently while setting up defaults for a new email account. It took me forever to decide between Verdana, Tahoma and Franklin Gothic Book. (Choices were limited.)

The font I like best? Goudy Old Style but I know it is not resume-appropriate.

@blueberry_kid My husband changed his default from Calibri back to Times New Roman b/c it wasn’t the same and he “hates” it. He had an unusually strong reaction to a font, IMO.

Basically, I don’t like TNR, so I was hoping to get ‘approval’ to use something else.

I’m Comic Sans, Asshole.

I use palatino linotype for my resume, perhaps you might like it?

Also, serif fonts are easier to read and flow better then sans serif which is probably why your husband had such a strong reaction to calibri.

@abysmalbeauty Wow, I have the exact opposite reaction – sans serifs are easier and flow better than serifs…

@Aethelflaed do you prefer reading a blog to a book? Seems like most web text is written sans serrifs especially lately and every book I own is written in serif (TNR I believe haha)

@abysmalbeauty An actual blog vs books? No. I don’t prefer one over the other. I do prefer sans vs serif, and wish more books had sans.