Lebenslauf

Lebenslauf is a component-first Typst toolkit for building polished CVs and resumes.
Instead of relying on TOML metadata, you compose pages directly in Typst using a small set of reusable helpers.

Highlights

• Flexible building blocks for headers, entries, skill lists, and photo layouts.
• Theme registry (professional, modern, everforest) that powers colors, typography, and spacing.
• Page helper cv-page with sane defaults for A4 documents.
• Example templates in template/advanced.typ and template/main.typ that you can clone or modify.

Getting Started

#import "@preview/lebenslauf:0.1.0": *

#let theme = themes.professional

#show: cv-page.with(theme: theme)

#cv-two-columns(
  [
    #cv-photo("photo.jpg", theme: theme, width: 3.5cm)
    #v(1em)
    #cv-header(name: "Jie Wang", theme: theme)
    #cv-sidebar-contact(
      email: "[email protected]",
      phone: "+49 123 456789",
      location: "Berlin",
      theme: theme,
    )
  ],
  [
    #cv-section("Berufserfahrung", theme: theme)[
      #cv-entry(
        title: "Senior Software Engineer",
        subtitle: "TechCorp GmbH",
        date: "2022 – heute",
        description: (
          "Leitung eines 6-köpfigen Teams",
          "Skalierung einer Microservice-Plattform",
        ),
        theme: theme,
      )
    ]
  ],
)

Templates

• template/letter.typ – Motivation letter template in German style.
• template/cv_en.typ – Two-column CV example with the same component vocabulary.

Compile templates (note the root flag because the template lives in a subdirectory):

typst compile --root . template/cv_en.typ

Developing

• Components live in src/components.typ.
• Utility functions (icons, ratings, two-column lists, …) live in src/utils.typ.
• Themes reside in src/themes.

Run ad-hoc previews with:

typst compile --root . tests/unit-photo/test.typ

Happy typesetting!***