The Best Resume Font for 2026 Recruiters

Lucas and Luna debate the single most practical resume detail most job seekers ignore: font choice. Lucas shares data from a 2026 recruiting survey showing that 73 percent of recruiters say a difficult-to-read font harms a candidate's chances in the first five seconds. They walk through why serif fonts like Times New Roman are actually fine for printed resumes but hurt ATS parsing, while fonts like Calibri and Arial remain safe but boring. Luna argues for a middle ground: fonts like IBM Plex Sans or Atkinson Hyperlegible that signal design awareness without risking rejection. They look at one real example: a finance professional who swapped Garamond for Noto Sans and saw her interview callback rate increase from 14 percent to 31 percent over three months. The episode closes on a practical checklist — font size, line spacing, PDF vs. DOCX, and whether to include a font fallback for older ATS systems. #ResumeFonts #ATS #Recruiting2026 #JobSearch #CareerAdvice #ResumeTips #CoverLetter #FontChoice #Typography #IBM Plex Sans #NotoSans #Calibri #Arial #TimesNewRoman #PDFvsDOCX #CareerStrategy #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo