career-ops-template-reactive

Fifteen ATS-strict CV and cover-letter theme pairs for career-ops, ported from the Reactive Resume template designs and reimplemented as single-column, parser-safe HTML.

What this is

Each theme is a CV template and a matching cover-letter template that share a masthead, face, accent, and density. Every template is single-column, uses system font stacks only (no webfonts), carries no images, tables, or icons, and uses at most one grayscale-safe accent that never appears in body or bullet copy. The point is to pass ATS text extraction reliably while still reading as a designed, distinct document. Fourteen themes are ATS-clean with no caveats; Gazette is marked design-forward and carries an honest disclosure in its own header.

This pack is passive data. career-ops renders your cv.md through a chosen template; it never executes anything here. It is built on the template scaffold, which carries the authoring guide and the design-lever taxonomy behind these choices.

Install

Installing is copying the theme's two files into your career-ops checkout:

cp templates/cv-template.ledger.html            /path/to/career-ops/templates/
cp templates/cover-letter-template.ledger.html  /path/to/career-ops/templates/

career-ops discovers templates by filename convention and reads each file's own <!-- career-ops-template --> meta block, then lists them when you generate a PDF or a cover letter. Copy as many themes as you want to try.

Themes

Theme	Origin	Face	Header treatment	Accent	Register	ATS risk
Ledger	rhyhorn	Georgia	full-width rule	monochrome	law / finance / academe	none
Slate	onyx	Helvetica	full rule, heavy name rule	monochrome	engineering classic	none
Meridian	kakuna	Georgia	centered, flanked rules	bronze (#7A5C1E)	ceremonial / board / gov	none
Cadence	meowth	Helvetica	uppercase letterspaced + rule	indigo (#33356B)	modern corporate / tech mgmt	none
Beacon	scizor	Trebuchet MS	page-top letterhead bar	steel-blue (#2B4A63)	consulting / strategy	none
Gazette	bronzor	Verdana	left-gutter section labels	monochrome	editorial	design-forward
Tempo	lapras	Calibri	short accent tab	ocean-blue (#1E5F74)	product / design-adjacent	none
Harbor	glalie	Cambria	small-caps, text underline	teal (#0F5E5E)	calm senior professional	none
Fern	chikorita	Tahoma	small-caps + hairline	forest (#2D5A27)	scientific / methodical	none
Regent	gengar	Palatino	small-caps, no rule	plum (#5B2A5E)	distinguished senior IC	none
Herald	ditto	Helvetica	name-band over heavy rule	burgundy (#6E1E2B)	communications / sales	none
Compass	ditgar	Verdana	uppercase, no rule	slate-navy (#2C3E60)	operations / logistics	none
Bastion	leafish	Calibri	shaded header bars	deep-pine (#1E4D40)	structured enterprise	none
Laurel	pikachu	Times	gold top hairline, small-caps	antique-gold (#806000)	prestige / legal / academia	none
Wayfarer	azurill	Helvetica	thin rules, left spine	azure (#1B5E8A)	program mgmt / journey	none

Face names above are the design intent; each template ships a full system font stack (for example Calibri renders through Carlito on Linux). Accent hex values are recorded in pack.json with their measured white-background contrast, all at or above 4.5:1, all still legible in grayscale.

Gazette is design-forward because its section labels sit in a left gutter. The DOM order stays strictly linear (label then content), so linear-parsing ATS read it correctly, but a minority of position-based parsers could misread the gutter. A labels-above fallback is documented in the Gazette template header.

Previews

Each theme, CV and cover letter. Full-size PNGs live in templates/previews/.

Regenerate them (after editing any template, or when adding a theme):

npm run previews:setup   # one-time: installs Playwright + Chromium (not saved as a dependency)
npm run previews         # renders every template in pack.json; pass ids to scope: npm run previews ledger

The previews are rendered from sample-cv.json (non-personal sample data) at 1224x1584. They approximate the authoritative career-ops render (generate-pdf.mjs, which uses @page margins and preferCSSPageSize); the script mimics the print margin with a screen-only padding rule, so the result is close, not pixel-for-pixel. Playwright is installed on demand and is never a dependency, so the pack stays passive data.

Theme	CV	Cover letter
Ledger
Slate
Meridian
Cadence
Beacon
Gazette
Tempo
Harbor
Fern
Regent
Herald
Compass
Bastion
Laurel
Wayfarer

Validate

npm install        # dev tooling only (Prettier, commitlint); the pack has no runtime dependencies
npm run validate   # shape, ATS, and render checks against pack.json
npm test           # the validator's unit tests
npm run smoke      # the pack must validate against its own manifest
npm run format:check

License

MIT. See LICENSE. The theme designs are derived from Reactive Resume by Amruth Pillai (MIT); the templates here are independent, ATS-safe reimplementations.

Contributors