Contempo — A JSON Resume Theme
I recently started using JSON Resume to make it easier to update my résumé and I found that I didn’t really like any of the themes that were available. So, I did what any person who had a few hours free would do and developed my own… drumroll
Introducing Contempo
Now that was pretty anticlimactic. I’ve had the same résumé design for a few years now. I’ve loved its simple design, the lack of colour, and the clean layout. When it came to updating it however, it was a complete nuisance. All the horizontal rules in the template had to many adjusted each time I added a new line - to put it plainly, I hated updating my résumé! Something had to be done.
After fluffing around with Handlebars and CSS for a few hours (I’ve never used Handlebars before, I do quite like it though) I hacked together a theme that resembled my original Pages résumé document. The result is pretty close to my old résumé, my only issue is that there doesn’t appear to be a way to do footers reliably.
If you already have a published JSON Resume file you can do http://registry.jsonresume.org/yourusername?theme=contempo to preview the Contempo theme. Alternatively, cd into your JSON Resume directory then publish with resume publish --theme contempo. Last resort, if you don’t have a JSON Resume résumé, you can see my hosted résumé on JSON Resume.