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Fonts in Simple-CV

Handling fonts in a LaTeX document like what ends up being the pdf version of your CV can be complicated. Hopefully, you will just set the name of your font in the right place in metadata/pdf-options.yml, and everything will work correctly. However, it may be the case that XeLaTeX (what’s actually making the pdf) cannot find your font. In that case, you have a few options:

  1. In your shell, use the command fc-list : family to get a list of fonts that LaTeX seems to know about. This list is not authoritative, but it’s a good start. For example, if you don’t know what your specific version of Garamond is called, you can run fc-list : family | grep -i "Garamond", which will print every font that matches “Garamond.” Note that if a font is listed twice on the same line, separated by a comma, the part before the comma is what you want.
  2. Download or copy the font you want to use into this repository. For example:
    1. Go to dafont and download the font Lemon Tuesday, which is 100% free.
    2. Unzip the downloaded file and move the file Lemon Tuesday.otf into the same directory as this file.
    3. Edit line 10 of metadata/pdf-options.yml to read: regular-font: Lemon Tuesday.otf.
    4. Execute the shell script with sh process.sh
    5. The new pdf of the CV should be nearly unreadable, but it proves that changing the font worked.

For the purposes of a CV, I recommend using Georg Duffner’s free EB Garamond. If you download and install EB Garamond, you can set line 10 of metadata/pdf-options.yml to read: regular-font: EB Garamond.

If you need help installing fonts, Fontspring has a tutorial for installing fonts on Windows or Mac.

Once EB Garamond is installed, you can make use its advanced OpenType features like swash features for italic shapes or various ligature settings, like “historic” and “rare.” To learn more about these various features and how to enable them in templates/tex.tex, please see section IV of the Fontspec documentation. Here, for example, is the appropriate section of my own cv’s template:

    \setmainfont{$regular-font$}[%
      $if(pdf-bold-as-smallcaps)$
        BoldFont = $regular-font$ ,
        BoldFeatures = {Letters=SmallCaps} ,
      $endif$
      Ligatures=Historic ,
      Ligatures=Rare ,
      ItalicFeatures={Style=Swash} ,
      Mapping=tex-text
    ]

Finally, the fonts may not work entirely as advertised in terms of producing smallcaps or replacing bold with smallcaps. Again, adjusting the options sent to Fontspec should help get precisely the look you want.