Modern Typst Resume & Cover Letter Template

A clean, professional, and ATS-friendly resume and cover letter bundle built with Typst. The layout is optimized for Software Engineering roles and is highly adaptable for the German/EU market.

This project uses a Jinja2 templating system to generate the .typ files from a central config.toml file, making it easy to manage your information and generate documents.

📸 Previews

Resume	Cover Letter
• Two-column grid layout • Dark navy sidebar • Professional typography • Skill progress bars • ATS-parseable text flow • Circular profile picture	• DIN 5008 compliant (German standard) • Positioned address fields for window envelopes • Fold marks for easy mailing • Clean, single-column layout • Matches resume's typography • Separated content and logic

🚀 Features

• Data-Driven: All content is stored in config.toml, providing a single source of truth.
• Templated: Jinja2 templates separate content from layout, allowing for flexible and maintainable design.
• Streamlined Workflow: A single script to build, compile, and clean all documents.
• Organized Output: All generated PDFs are stored in a dedicated output/ directory.
• ATS Friendly: The resume uses a standard text flow that Applicant Tracking Systems can easily parse.
• German/EU Ready:
  • Resume: Supports profile pictures and personal details common in the DACH region.
  • Cover Letter: Compliant with DIN 5008 for professional letter formatting.
• Modular & Customizable: Easily extend or modify the templates and data structure.

🛠️ Usage

1. Prerequisites

• Typst CLI: Required to compile the generated .typ files into PDFs.
  • Install via Cargo or download a pre-compiled binary.
• Python 3.11+: Required to run the generation script (uses tomllib).

2. File Structure

.
├── templates/
│   ├── coverletter.typ.j2
│   └── resume.typ.j2
├── coverletter/
│   └── template.typ
├── cv/
│   ├── template.typ
│   ├── lang.toml
│   └── img/
│       └── profile.png
├── output/               # (Generated PDFs appear here)
├── config.toml           # <-- All your content goes here
├── main.py               # (Build script)
├── pyproject.toml
└── README.md

3. How to Use

Step 1: Install Dependencies

This project uses uv for package management, as defined in pyproject.toml.

With uv:

uv sync

Step 2: Edit Your Data

Open config.toml and fill in your personal information, work experience, skills, and other details. You can also define one or more cover letters.

Step 3: Build, Compile, and Clean

Use the generate.py script to manage your documents.

A) Build & Compile Everything To generate the .typ files and then immediately compile them into PDFs in the output/ directory, run:

uv run main.py build
uv run main.py compile

B) Clean Up To remove all generated .typ and .pdf files from the cv, coverletter, and output directories, run:

uv run generate.py clean

This will produce your resume and cover letters as PDFs in the /output directory.