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Kenyan Standard CV

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A Kenyan-format CV on A4, set in Charter, opening with Personal Details and a Career Objective, then Professional Experience, Education and Qualifications, Certifications, Core Skills and Referees.

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Document class
article [10pt, a4paper]
Compiles with
pdfLaTeX
Pages in the compiled PDF
2
Bibliography
None
Files
2 files: 1 .tex, 1 image
Packages
  • inputenc
  • fontenc
  • geometry
  • xcolor
  • titlesec
  • enumitem
  • tabularx
  • booktabs
  • fontawesome5
  • hyperref
  • microtype
  • charter
  • tcolorbox
The start of the preamble of main.tex, from its \documentclass line.
\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[top=0.4in, bottom=0.4in, left=0.5in, right=0.5in]{geometry}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{fontawesome5}
\usepackage[colorlinks=true, urlcolor=secondaryColor, linkcolor=primaryColor]{hyperref}
\usepackage{microtype}
\usepackage{charter}
\usepackage[most]{tcolorbox}

% Define colors
\definecolor{primaryColor}{HTML}{1E3A8A}
\definecolor{secondaryColor}{HTML}{0D9488}
\definecolor{accentLight}{HTML}{99F6E4}
\definecolor{darkText}{HTML}{1F2937}
\definecolor{lightText}{HTML}{4B5563}
\definecolor{dividerColor}{HTML}{E5E7EB}

% Typography settings
\renewcommand{\familydefault}{\rmdefault}

% Layout settings
\pagestyle{empty}
\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}

% Adjust list settings
\setlist[itemize]{leftmargin=*, noitemsep, topsep=1pt, parsep=0pt, partopsep=0pt}

% Custom section headings using titlesec
\titleformat{\section}
  {\color{primaryColor}\normalfont\bfseries\large\scshape}
  {}{0em}
  {}
  [{\color{secondaryColor}\titlerule}]
\titlespacing{\section}{0pt}{8pt}{4pt}

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It uses the article class (options: 10pt, a4paper), builds with pdfLaTeX, and loads 13 packages, including inputenc, fontenc, geometry, xcolor, titlesec, enumitem, tabularx and booktabs.

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