This looks nice and having it produce websites and pdfs is surely useful.
Some hopefully constructive criticism:
- The light gray, low contrast theme makes it harder to read and also look washed out.
- Fonts and kerning tend to be handled better in latex, e.g. moderncv
- Having a non-open source license is of course your choice, but makes this quite unattractive to use (is it still going to be around in a few years? Will anyone maintain non-free software if you lose interest?)
1. Body text has the contrast ratio of 7.52 under WCAG 2.0 standards (https://contrast-ratio.com/#%234a5568-on-white) which is within the optimal range for legibility. On paper, the text is 100% black. On the screen, that can be too much, so I used grays. Labels are lighter because I wanted to treat them as supporting text, not main.
2. This is primarily for the Web. So, HTML/CSS. I didn’t know about LaTeX before, interesting.
LaTeX is really great. My CV is a 7 kB file with embedded fonts. My thesis is 1.2 MB with embedded fonts, 60 vector images and hyperlinks (references and ToC). LaTex is a serious amount of labor but it makes the best documents.
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This looks nice and having it produce websites and pdfs is surely useful.
Some hopefully constructive criticism:
- The light gray, low contrast theme makes it harder to read and also look washed out.
- Fonts and kerning tend to be handled better in latex, e.g. moderncv
- Having a non-open source license is of course your choice, but makes this quite unattractive to use (is it still going to be around in a few years? Will anyone maintain non-free software if you lose interest?)
Hey, thanks for commenting.
1. Body text has the contrast ratio of 7.52 under WCAG 2.0 standards (https://contrast-ratio.com/#%234a5568-on-white) which is within the optimal range for legibility. On paper, the text is 100% black. On the screen, that can be too much, so I used grays. Labels are lighter because I wanted to treat them as supporting text, not main.
2. This is primarily for the Web. So, HTML/CSS. I didn’t know about LaTeX before, interesting.
3. It’s free, and you can modify it, maintain it, etc. The only restriction is that you can’t use it for commercial purposes (e.g., page builder). More info here https://github.com/WebPraktikos/universal-resume#license
LaTeX is really great. My CV is a 7 kB file with embedded fonts. My thesis is 1.2 MB with embedded fonts, 60 vector images and hyperlinks (references and ToC). LaTex is a serious amount of labor but it makes the best documents.
Be careful with LaTeX. It’s easy to get sucked into it.
LaTeX is good stuff, very powerful but also, as parent said, it's a deep rabbit hole.
That said, Overleaf is a good online template & LaTeX editor. Kind of an easy way into it, similar to WYSIWYG HTML editors.
Just like programming in general.
Staring into the Abyss. Don’t get sucked into it. :D
And then you start playing around with TikZ...