Sienna: warm resume template with a display serif
Warm paper with terracotta labels and a display serif name. Brand, content and comms roles.
Sienna is a warm page. The paper is an off-white with a warm cast, your name is set large in a bold display serif, and the section labels are small capitals in the scheme colour, a deep maroon in the default scheme. Contact details are in a warm grey, and the open line spacing makes paragraphs comfortable to read.
- Audience
- Content · Comms · Marketing
- Colour schemes
- Maroon, Olive, Ink
- Photo slot
- Yes
- Paper
- A4 and US Letter
It is meant for content writers, editors, communications and social media people, and marketers at agencies, publishers and consumer brands, where how a resume reads is part of the evidence. Sienna has an optional photo slot with softly rounded corners. Like the other Showcase layouts it belongs in an email to a person, with a single-column version kept for portals. It is completely free.
Pick Sienna if…
- Your work is about voice, and you want the page to have one.
- You are applying to agencies, publishers, media houses or consumer brands.
- You want warmth without the page looking like a template.
- You often send your resume with writing samples or a portfolio link.
The trade-offs of a warm page
- The warm paper is a fill across the whole page. It reads well on screen and in print, but in a scan it lowers contrast and makes character recognition less reliable.
- Section labels are small coloured capitals. A person finds them easily, while software that relies on contrast gets less to work with than it would from black headings.
- Optical character recognition can misread a display serif at large sizes, which makes your name the line most at risk.
- Below the header, entries run in a single column with round bullets, so the body text keeps a sensible reading order.
How much fits on one page
The large name, the warm paper and the open line spacing all take room, so Sienna holds three or four roles on a page. That works for a writer or marketer, because much of the best evidence lives outside the resume. Put your portfolio link in the header and keep the page selective. If you write in Hindi, Marathi or another language as well as English, name it in a Languages section, since many Indian publishers and agencies work across languages.
When to use something else
Tinted paper and coloured labels suffer most in OCR, photocopies and portal parsing. If your resume will be scanned, forwarded as a copy of a copy or uploaded to a careers site, Ledger keeps its contrast. If you want something calmer that still uploads safely, Plainline in the Indigo scheme is a reasonable middle ground.
Sienna works well for these roles
Writing, social and search roles, where how you put words together is part of what is being judged.
Questions about Sienna
- Is Sienna a good template for a content writer?
- Yes; it was drawn with writers and editors in mind. Put your strongest bylines or campaigns in the Experience bullets with a number or an outcome attached, and use the link field in the header for your portfolio. If the job is advertised on a portal, upload a single-column version there and email Sienna to the editor or hiring manager.
- What does the photo look like in Sienna?
- It sits above your name at the left, in a frame with softly rounded corners and a thin beige ring that matches the paper. It is optional, and most writers leave it out unless the employer asks for one.
- Does Sienna work on a black-and-white printer?
- Reasonably. The coloured labels print as dark grey, the warm paper prints as a faint tint or not at all, and the structure holds. If you expect your resume to be photocopied, the Ink scheme gives the most contrast.