Postdoc Application Cover Letter

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A postdoctoral application cover letter in Charter with a coloured letterhead giving the applicant's position, department, email and lab website, drawn in TikZ.

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Document class
article [11pt, letterpaper]
Compiles with
pdfLaTeX
Pages in the compiled PDF
1
Bibliography
None
Files
2 files: 1 .tex, 1 image
Packages
  • geometry
  • inputenc
  • fontenc
  • charter
  • microtype
  • xcolor
  • hyperref
  • graphicx
  • fontawesome5
  • tikz
  • tcolorbox
  • parskip
The preamble of main.tex, from \documentclass to \begin{document}.
\documentclass[11pt,letterpaper]{article}

\usepackage[letterpaper, top=0.9in, bottom=0.7in, left=0.85in, right=0.85in]{geometry}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{charter}
\usepackage{microtype}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{fontawesome5}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage[most]{tcolorbox}
\usepackage{parskip}

\definecolor{primary}{HTML}{1B365D}
\definecolor{secondary}{HTML}{4A777A}
\definecolor{darkgray}{HTML}{2B2B2B}
\definecolor{lightgray}{HTML}{E2E8F0}

\hypersetup{
    colorlinks=true,
    linkcolor=primary,
    filecolor=primary,
    urlcolor=primary,
    pdftitle={Postdoc Cover Letter},
    pdfpagemode=FullScreen,
}

\usetikzlibrary{calc}

\setlength{\parskip}{0.55em}
\renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{1.1}

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