For a CV, Computer Modern might be more apt since there's also more text on it. But again, why make it scream LaTeX if one can do it more subtle and make it more personal at the same time?
Do note that I have a LaTeX PDF style CV as well, but it's not linked in the article (nor available online).
I dont like Computer Modern too much. I am very fond of Gentium [1]. For math, I love Euler [2], which is used in Concrete Mathematics.
If you don't like it, a good alternative to Computer Modern is Latin Modern. A nice derivative which is not so thin. Reading long Computer Modern texts gets a bit tiring for my eyes. I think some editors like LyX default to Latin Modern instead of Computer Modern.
Aside, The Art of Prolog uses an amazing Lucida variant. It'd be my favorite for math texts if it was free.
> Good TeX should simply yield to good typography.
Making it look like tech can make it appear like you're one of the in-crowd. Although I personally try to avoid exactly that, I can see it being an advantage in -- for example -- CVs. Fwiw, my CV is also done in LaTex. I hope it doesn't show too much: http://stbr.me/cv
Edit: thank you! Glad you like it.
Edit 2: sources at https://github.com/kaeluka/cv
https://www.aliterate.org/aliterate-page47.pdf
The typefaces are Minion and Myriad.
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
Because the point of a business card is to effectively signal your impressiveness.
This comment could sound sarcastic but it's not. Even that marketing manager could be a nerd, and it would be awesome to find out.
I imagine that an obviously-LaTeX resume (look for the ligatures, the correct spacing between sentences vice after periods, the clean, consistent grey across the page, the bold, clean margins) would play especially well with him. As you might guess from the preceding sentence, it'd probably play pretty well with me, too!
Is vice Latin? It reminds me of pace (because of the "shape" of the word, haha), but I guess it means something akin to except?
So apparently what was meant is
correct spacing between sentences instead of after periods
If the technical people have a specific university background they might be familiar with it, and then either hate it or love it.
It's a good tool for writing large documents but does not signal anything except personal tastes.
> LaTeX users were slower than Word users, wrote less text in the same amount of time, and produced more typesetting, orthographical, grammatical, and formatting errors. On most measures, expert LaTeX users performed even worse than novice Word users.
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
any particular reason why? i for one would love to see it.