Write your CV or resume as YAML, then run RenderCV,
rendercv render John_Doe_CV.yaml
and get a PDF with perfect typography.
With RenderCV, you can:
- Version-control your CV — it's just text.
- Focus on content — don't worry about the formatting.
- Get perfect typography — consistent alignment and spacing, handled for you.
A YAML file like this:
cv: name: John Doe location: San Francisco, CA email: [email protected] website: https://rendercv.com/ social_networks: - network: LinkedIn username: rendercv - network: GitHub username: rendercv sections: Welcome to RenderCV: - RenderCV reads a CV written in a YAML file, and generates a PDF with professional typography. - See the [documentation](https://docs.rendercv.com) for more details. education: - institution: Princeton University area: Computer Science degree: PhD date: start_date: 2018-09 end_date: 2023-05 location: Princeton, NJ summary: highlights: - "Thesis: Efficient Neural Architecture Search for Resource-Constrained Deployment" - "Advisor: Prof. Sanjeev Arora" - NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, Siebel Scholar (Class of 2022) ...
becomes one of these PDFs. Click on the images to preview.
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RenderCV's JSON Schema lets you fill out the YAML interactively, with autocompletion and inline documentation.
You have full control over every detail.
design: theme: classic page: size: us-letter top_margin: 0.7in bottom_margin: 0.7in left_margin: 0.7in right_margin: 0.7in show_footer: true show_top_note: true colors: body: rgb(0, 0, 0) name: rgb(0, 79, 144) headline: rgb(0, 79, 144) connections: rgb(0, 79, 144) section_titles: rgb(0, 79, 144) links: rgb(0, 79, 144) footer: rgb(128, 128, 128) top_note: rgb(128, 128, 128) typography: line_spacing: 0.6em alignment: justified date_and_location_column_alignment: right font_family: Source Sans 3 # ...and much more
Tip
Want to set up a live preview environment like the one shown above? See how to set up VS Code for RenderCV.
No surprises. If something's wrong, you'll know exactly what and where. If it's valid, you get a perfect PDF.
Fill out the locale field for your language.
locale: language: english last_updated: Last updated in month: month months: months year: year years: years present: present month_abbreviations: - Jan - Feb - Mar ...
Let AI coding agents create and edit your CV. Install the RenderCV skill:
npx skills add rendercv/rendercv-skill
Works with any AI agent that supports the skills standard. The skill is auto-generated from RenderCV's source code and evaluated with promptfoo against RenderCV's own Pydantic validation pipeline. See the documentation for details.
Install RenderCV (Requires Python 3.12+):
pip install "rendercv[full]"
Create a new CV yaml file:
rendercv new "John Doe"
Edit the YAML, then render:
rendercv render "John_Doe_CV.yaml"
For more details, see the user guide.