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Played with some #typography options for my CV/Résume. Fonts in use are Didot, Neurial Grotesk, Hubot-Sans and Helvetica Neue.

I'm happy with the way it turned out.

Mockup of my resume on a white round base on top of a red floor. There are very faded plant shadows on the entire picture. The resume has a coarse texture to it. The resume contains my name in condensed Didot in the top left with my education information right below in Helvetica Neue. My social handles in red Helvetica Neue towards the right of my education details. Below my education information is a narrow column titled Skills (the heading is written in red with Hubot-Sans with the kerning reduced). This section has four further sub headings, namely, Design, Tools, Research and Coding written in all caps in the Neurial Grotesk font. The rest of the body text is in Helvetica Neue. Towards the right of this column is another column titled Projects, the same typography patterns as the skills column.
Same resume without the background and coarse paper texture.
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I wanted to use Didot with negative kerning to mimic the aesthetic of the Zara logo and the Vogue logo because I've always been a fan of how premium it looks.
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I also wanted to use a monospace font to communicate a mechanical/technological feel to the CV and initially, I chose iA Writer Duo (a derivative of IBM Plex Mono) for it.

However, I changed it because some of my friends pointed out that it was the monospace font was too condensed and hard to read. I settled for Hubot-Sans which is not exactly a monospace font, but looks technological enough.

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Finally, I wanted to use something other than Helvetica Neue because it felt too basic and mainstream. I had recently come across a lot of projects using Helvetica like Sans Serif fonts but all with their own unique twist and I liked these a lot. So I settled to use Neurial Grotesk in my all caps headings.

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