Marigold — warm resume template with a photo inset
Warm cream paper with a marigold spine down the left edge and a photo inset beside the name — a resume for the roles where a face and a warm page are an advantage, not a liability.
Marigold is one of 22 free résumé templates in PaperKit, the no-login résumé builder from CodeSierra. It is free to use and free to download as a PDF — no account, no watermark and nothing to pay — and it prints to A4 or US Letter. Marigold is a showcase layout, so send it where a person reads your résumé first and keep an ATS-safe template for job portals. You fill it in as a form with the real PDF rendering beside you, and switching to any other template carries your content across untouched.
- Audience
- Creative · Content · Teaching
- Colour schemes
- Maroon, Ink, Teal
- Photo slot
- Yes
- Paper
- A4 and US Letter
Pick Marigold if…
- The employer asked for a photograph and a person, not a parser, will read the page.
- You work somewhere warmth is part of the job — teaching, content, community, front of house.
- You want colour and texture without a full band across the header.
- You will print this and hand it over as often as you email it.
What to know before you send it
- Carries a photograph, which no resume parser can read.
- A full-height colour spine is a background graphic.
- A paper texture prints under the whole page.
- Cream stock is often clipped to white when printed.
- Applying through a job portal as well? Keep an ATS-first template for that copy — switching costs nothing.
Marigold works well for these roles
Each example comes with profession-specific bullets you can edit in place.
Questions about Marigold
- Is the Marigold resume template free?
- Yes. Marigold is free — no login, no watermark and nothing to pay at the download step. You can edit it in your browser and download the PDF straight away. Every PaperKit template is free the same way, in all four makers: there is no premium set and nothing to unlock.
- Is Marigold ATS-friendly?
- Marigold is a Showcase layout: it uses tinted paper and a photo slot, which some applicant tracking systems parse poorly. Use it when a person will read your resume first, and switch to an ATS-first template for automated applications — your content carries over.
- Can I switch away from Marigold later?
- Yes. Templates are a design layer over your content, so you can change template at any point inside the editor without retyping or losing a single line.