How to Customize Your Resume Design
Fine-tune every visual aspect of your resume — fonts, colors, spacing, and margins — while keeping ATS compatibility.
The Design panel gives you control over your resume's visual presentation. Adjust fonts, accent colors, section spacing, margins, and more. All changes update in the live preview instantly.
Step-by-step guide
Open the Design panel
Click the paint brush icon in the builder sidebar to open design settings.
Customize fonts and colors
Choose from a selection of professional fonts and set your accent color. The color applies to headers, links, and decorative elements.
Adjust spacing and margins
Control section spacing, line height, and page margins to fit more content or give your resume more breathing room.
Preview changes live
Every change updates the preview immediately. Toggle between different templates to see how your design settings look across layouts.
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Will custom fonts break ATS parsing?
No. AceCV embeds fonts in the PDF, so ATS systems read the text correctly regardless of which font you choose.