How to change your PDF resume's text color

Each template uses one accent color. You can change it to one of six presets, or to any color you like, and see your own resume redraw in it.

1. Open your resume and click Preview & Download.

2. In the PDF settings box, click a swatch on the Color row.

   

3. For a color that is not in the row, click the + at the end and pick one. Your brand color or your university color both work.

Going back to the template's own color

Click the empty swatch at the left of the row. That is the reset.

Good to know

• The accent moves through your section headings, the section rules, the dates, and the labels. Some templates keep your name in their own ink whatever accent you pick. Choose a color dark enough to read on paper.
• The color applies to your PDF and to your public resume page. A Word file uses the layout built into that template instead.
• There is no save button. The choice is stored as you make it.
• Choosing a color is included on every paid plan. On the free plan the swatches still work and the preview still updates, so you can see the effect. Your resume then downloads in its template's own color. Resumonk says so under the preview, and again in the download panel.
• Pick a color with enough contrast against white. A very pale accent is hard to read on paper and on screen.