Brilliant CV

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Brilliant CV is a Typst template for making Résume, CV or Cover Letter inspired by the famous LaTeX CV template Awesome-CV.

Features

1. Separation of style and content

Version control your CV entries in the modules folder, without touching the styling and typesetting of your CV / Cover Letter (hey, I am not talking about Macrohard Word, you know)

2. Quick twitches on the visual

Add company logos, put your shiny company name or your coolest title at the first line globally or per-document needs

3. Multilingual support

Centrally store your multilingual CVs (English + French + German + Chinese + Japanese if you are superb) and change output language in a blink

(NEW) 4. AI Prompt and Keywords Injection

Fight against the abuse of ATS system or GenAI screening by injecting invisible AI prompt or keyword list automatically.

Preview

CV	Cover Letter

CV (French, red, no photo)	Cover Letter (French, red)

CV (Chinese, green)	Cover Letter (Chinese, green)

Usage

If you are using Typst online editor, you don't have to follow local development steps.

1. Install Fonts

In order to make Typst render correctly, you will have to install the required fonts Roboto, Source Sans Pro (or Source Sans 3) as well as Fontawesome 6 in your local system.

NOTE: For online editor, Source Sans Pro are already included; however you will still have to manually upload the .otf or .ttf files of Fontawesome and Roboto to your project, by creating a folder fonts and put all the otf files there. See Issue

2. Check Documentation

A documentation on CV functions is provided for reference.

3. Bootstrap Template

You have two ways to bootstrap the template, according to your need and tech-savvy level.

3.1 With Typst CLI

In your local system, just working like git clone, boostrap the template using this command:

typst init @preview/brilliant-cv:<version>

Replace the <version> with the latest or any releases (after 2.0.0).

3.2 With utpm pakcage manager

utpm is a WIP packager manager for Typst. Install it with official instructions.

Git clone then this repository on your local system, and within the workspace, run utpm workspace link --force.

You will have to take care of templating by yourself, though.

4. Compile Files

Adapt the metadata.toml to suit your needs, then typst c cv.typ to get your first CV!

5. Beyond

It is recommended to:

1. Use git to manage your project, as it helps trace your changes and version control your CV.
2. Use typstyle and pre-commit to help you format your CV.
3. Use typos to check typos in your CV if your main locale is English.
4. (Advanced) Use LTex in your favorite code editor to check grammars and get language suggestions.

How to upgrade version

For the time being, upgrade can be achieved by manually "find and replace" the import statements in batch in your favorite IDE. For example:

#import "@preview/brilliant-cv:2.0.0" -> #import "@preview/brilliant-cv:2.0.3"

Make sure you read the release notes to notice any breaking changes. We estimate that there would still be some as Typst has not reached to a stable release neither.

Migration from v1

The version v1 is now deprecated, due to the compliance to Typst Packages standard. However, if you want to continue to develop on the older version, please refer to the v1-legacy branch.

With an existing CV project using the v1 version of the template, a migration is needed, including replacing some files / some content in certain files.

1. Delete brilliant-CV folder, .gitmodules. (Future package management will directly be managed by Typst)
2. Migrate all the config on metadata.typ by creating a new metadata.toml. Follow the example toml file in the repo, it is rather straightforward to migrate.
3. For cv.typ and letter.typ, copy the new files from the repo, and adapt the modules you have in your project.
4. For the module files in /modules_* folders:
   1. Delete the old import #import "../brilliant-CV/template.typ": *, and replace it by the import statements in the new template files.
   2. Due to the Typst path handling mecanism, one cannot directly pass the path string to some functions anymore. This concerns, for example, the logo argument in cvEntry, but also on cvPublication as well. Some parameter names were changed, but most importantly, you should pass a function instead of a string (i.e. image("logo.png") instead of "logo.png"). Refer to new template files for reference.
5. You might need to install Roboto and Source Sans Pro on your local system now, as new Typst package discourages including these large files.
6. Run typst c cv.typ without passing the font-path flag. All should be good now, congrats!

Feel free to raise an issue for more assistance should you encounter a problem that you cannot solve on your own :)

Alternatives

If you are not a fan of my approach, you will also have to take a look at:

• typst-cv: A more minimalistic approach to typesetting this template, thanks munzirtaha for your work!

Credit

• Typst is a newborn, open source and simple typesetting engine that offers a better scripting experience than LaTeX.
• Awesome-CV is the original LaTeX CV template from which this project is heavily inspired. Thanks posquit0 for your excellent work!
• Font Awesome is a comprehensive icon library and toolkit used widely in web projects for its vast array of icons and ease of integration.
• tidy is a package that generates documentation directly in Typst for your Typst modules. Keep it tidy!