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Impressive Impression is a CV (Curriculum Vitae) template for users wishing to typeset their CV using Typst.

It was developed to fit my personal CV, which I ported from LaTeX to Typst, and as such is heavily inspired by the layout of the FortySecondsCV template for LaTeX, which in turn is inspired by Carmine Spagnuolo’s Twenty Seconds Curriculum Vitae.

The template is highly flexible and supports themes. It works as a split CV with a narrow column on the side (left or right) for shorter information, or alternatively can be used in a single-column layout.

Usage of the template assumes some knowledge of Typst, especially if extensive customisation is undertaken.

Features

  • 🏃‍➡️ GitHub Runner for rendering CV and uploading as an artifact (see .github/workflows/build.yml)
  • 📄 1, 2, or more pages
  • 📝 Two-column (left or right), or single column
  • 🎨 Themable
  • 📊 Stats and skills section

Installation

  • Impressive Impression relies on Typst to produce PDFs.
    • Existing knowledge of Typst is expected, including how to set it up and compile documents.
  • The default font is Open Sans, which must be installed to get the intended output
    • Simply install all the fonts in fonts/OpenSans folder
  • By default, FontAwesome 6 Fonts are used
    • The fonts can be installed using the files in the fonts/FontAwesome6 folder
    • Note that using FontAwesome icons is not a requirement and is not actually implemented in the impressive-impression package, but added directly in the default template.
  • If you plan on cloning the Impressive Impression repository, you should have [git-lfs] installed
    • This is installed by default in the Windows git installer

Contributing

I am looking to actively maintain this template and would love to receive feedback and enhancements.

If there is some styling that is not easily done via the theming dictionary, please feel free to open an issue or Pull Request such that it can be improved for future versions.

Getting Started

Web-App

Find impressive-impression in the list of templates, give it an an appropriate title such as My CV and press create.

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on the typst web app. Perhaps a short code example on importing the package and a very simple teaser usage.

In order for the fonts to be installed in the web app, upload the fonts directory found in this project to the Web App project.

You can then adapt the CV according to your preferences.

Using Compiler Directly

You can check out the template using:

typst init "@preview/impressive-impression

Which will set up a folder with the necessary files.

This can then be adapted to suit your needs.

Usage

The main function cv() takes arguments as:

#cv(
  theme: theme,
  paper: "a4",
  pages-content: (
    ("left": aside-content-1, "main": main-content-1),
    ("left": aside-content-2, "main": main-content-2),
  ),
)

Where pages-content is an array of dictionaries containing the asides and main contents. You can specify the side or not include any aside to get different layouts.

You can construct the aside and main contents as you please, allowing you the full flexibility and power of Typst.

You can explore the various utility and element functions found in the source code, which can help construct a nice layout for your CV. These are not documented, but their use is shown in the default template.

Development Setup

  • Install just (brew install just)
  • Install oxipng (cargo install oxipng)

Attribution and Acknowledgements

Images in assets/flags are from Lipis’s flag-icons project, which is MIT licensed.

Inspiration comes from the LaTeX-based FortySecondsCV and Twenty Seconds Curriculum Vitae projects.

Fonts in fonts/FontAwesome6 are from the FontAwesome company and licensed under the SIL OFL 1.1 License.

Fonts in fonts/OpenSans are from Google’s [OpenSans] project and licensed under the SIL OFL 1.1 License.