Certain truisms apply to resumes regardless of the position for which you are applying.  One of the most prominent of these is that clean, crisp, black and white resumes written using standard professional fonts such as those found in the Times and  Georgia font families.

Why these two in particular? Because they are the most widely used in newspapers. Newspapers use these fonts because they are easy on the eye and easily understood. The advantage in using them on a resume is that the people who will read your resume are already accustomed to reading in these font formats and can therefore concentrate on content rather than form.

Using crisp, clean, professional fonts is good advice even if  you are applying for a position as art director at an ad agency noted for its Bohemian flair. The purpose of a resume is to impart information about you: Your name, contact information, schooling, honors, special skills and work experience in order to enable hiring personnel to make a good hiring decision. So keep your artier work in your portfolio and take it along to your job —the interview you got because your resume looked so professional!

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