I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
Part of the reason people use PDFs for CVs and résumés is that they know they'll look the same when printed. People share around hard copies of CVs all the time. I think this looks nice, but isn't going to be any good if people want to print it out - especially on a tired office inkjet!
I prefer the idea of having it look dark on a website, but when you choose to print the site, the print stylesheet swaps colours to make it look good on paper.
Firstly, thank you so so much for the reply. It means a lot to me that you took the time to start the discussion. Your critique means a lot to me :)
So, when designing the resume, I tried printing it out on my home printer (HP LaserJet 1020) and it was pretty good, I went ahead with that belief, but you are right, I didn't think of the inkjet printers. Definitely there would be some quality degradation there.
As you saw the screenshot of Figma, I've made the entire template to be a mix-n-match style design, so I can easily swap out the background and foreground with few clicks, so thank you for your insight into dark-colored resumes.
I do like the idea of having dark mode website and being able to simply print the site and it would print out a bright version of the resume. Will definitely look into implementing that on my website as well. Thank you so much for that :)
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Part of the reason people use PDFs for CVs and résumés is that they know they'll look the same when printed. People share around hard copies of CVs all the time. I think this looks nice, but isn't going to be any good if people want to print it out - especially on a tired office inkjet!
I prefer the idea of having it look dark on a website, but when you choose to print the site, the print stylesheet swaps colours to make it look good on paper.
Firstly, thank you so so much for the reply. It means a lot to me that you took the time to start the discussion. Your critique means a lot to me :)
So, when designing the resume, I tried printing it out on my home printer (HP LaserJet 1020) and it was pretty good, I went ahead with that belief, but you are right, I didn't think of the inkjet printers. Definitely there would be some quality degradation there.
As you saw the screenshot of Figma, I've made the entire template to be a mix-n-match style design, so I can easily swap out the background and foreground with few clicks, so thank you for your insight into dark-colored resumes.
I do like the idea of having dark mode website and being able to simply print the site and it would print out a bright version of the resume. Will definitely look into implementing that on my website as well. Thank you so much for that :)