I think it's ugly, and when I see it in use it seems unprofessional somehow. It's certainly non-standard, and if someone recognizes it, it says "This was done in TeX". I don't like advertising the process when the point is the end-product, so unless I was a big fan of the appearance of Computer Modern I wouldn't use it. If you prefer Helvetica or something, use that, but to just leave it in CM feels lazy - if you care about how your resume looks, shouldn't you care what font it's in?
If CM is your favorite thing in the world, then certainly go ahead and use it of course. I just don't like it.
It's strange how some people just don't like CM. I use times for papers for two reasons: (1) I can fit in more text than CM, which is important for page limits; and (2) some people I work with just can't stand CM.
I would stick with a serif font like times or the serif form of CM. I wouldn't put my resume in a sans serif font like Helvetica, but that's just me. (Headings and titles are good for sans serif; but long passages of text are more readable in serifed fonts, because it provides a sort of invisible baseline for your eye to follow.)
Once in my resume I advertized that I knew latex by using the \LaTeX\ command, which formats the special logo. A professor (at NEU) told me to remove it and said "we all know tex, we all know you know it".
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Re: Eek! Computer Modern!
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If CM is your favorite thing in the world, then certainly go ahead and use it of course. I just don't like it.
Re: Eek! Computer Modern!
I would stick with a serif font like times or the serif form of CM. I wouldn't put my resume in a sans serif font like Helvetica, but that's just me. (Headings and titles are good for sans serif; but long passages of text are more readable in serifed fonts, because it provides a sort of invisible baseline for your eye to follow.)
Once in my resume I advertized that I knew latex by using the \LaTeX\ command, which formats the special logo. A professor (at NEU) told me to remove it and said "we all know tex, we all know you know it".