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South African CV

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A South African CV on A4, set in Roboto, with a Professional Summary, a dated Employment History and Education, in a boxed, icon-led layout.

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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
  • roboto
  • geometry
  • xcolor
  • fontawesome5
  • titlesec
  • enumitem
  • tcolorbox
  • hyperref
The preamble of main.tex, from \documentclass to \begin{document}.
\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[sfdefault]{roboto}
\usepackage[margin=1.0cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{fontawesome5}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage{tcolorbox}
\usepackage{hyperref}

% Define premium South African themed teal palette
\definecolor{primary}{HTML}{0D4C5C}    % Deep Teal accent
\definecolor{darktext}{HTML}{2B2D42}   % Off-black body text
\definecolor{muted}{HTML}{5C6B73}      % Slate gray for secondary details
\definecolor{lightbg}{HTML}{F4F7F6}    % Very light teal/gray tint for details box

\color{darktext}

% Setup hyperref
\hypersetup{
    hidelinks,
    pdftitle={Sipho Ndlovu - CV},
    pdfauthor={Sipho Ndlovu}
}

% Remove page numbers
\pagestyle{empty}

% Section formatting
\titleformat{\section}{\large\bfseries\color{primary}}{}{0em}{}[\titlerule]
\titlespacing{\section}{0pt}{8pt}{4pt}

% Custom list styling
\setlist[itemize]{leftmargin=10pt, topsep=1pt, itemsep=1.5pt, parsep=0pt, partopsep=0pt}

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It uses the article class (options: 10pt, a4paper), builds with pdfLaTeX, and loads 10 packages, including inputenc, fontenc, roboto, geometry, xcolor, fontawesome5, titlesec and enumitem.

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The compiled sample is 2 pages, from 2 files: 1 .tex, 1 image. Replace the sample text with yours and the layout stays.

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