Minimalist LaTeX Template for Academic CVs

This repository contains a LaTeX template to create an academic CV. The template carefully follows typographical best practices and has a minimalist design. It is particularly well suited for researchers, professors, and other academics. The design emphasizes clarity, structure, and visual simplicity. The repository also contains a variant of the template to create a one-page CV. The variant produces a more compact CV.

Documentation

The template and its variant are documented at https://pascalmichaillat.org/f/.

Illustration

The CV produced by the template can be viewed at https://pascalmichaillat.org/f.pdf. The one-page CV can be viewed at https://pascalmichaillat.org/f1.pdf.

Usage

• Clone the repository to your local machine.
• Start editing the LaTeX file cv.tex to replace the boilerplate content with the content of your CV.
• Compile cv.tex with pdfTeX. This will generate a PDF file of your CV named cv.pdf.
• The LaTeX style file cv.sty collects all the commands to format the CV. The file must be included in the same folder as cv.tex. It can be modified to alter the CV's format.
• The cv.pdf file is not required: it only illustrates the output of the template. It will be overridden once cv.tex is compiled.
• To produce a one-page CV, edit the LaTeX file onepage.tex instead of cv.tex, and follow the same steps. All the commands to format the one-page CV are in the LaTeX style file onepage.sty.

Software

• The template was developed with TeX Live 2023 on MacOS.
• Other LaTeX distributions and operating systems may require minor adjustments. Please report any issues to help improve compatibility.

License

This repository is licensed under the MIT License.

Related resources

• hugo-website - This Hugo template produces a minimalist academic website that can host your academic CV.
• latex-paper - This LaTeX template produces academic papers with a similar appearance as this CV template.