White Space

The blank space on your resume. Makes content scannable and professional.

White space refers to the empty, unprinted areas of your resume — the margins, the gaps between sections, the space between lines. Despite the name, it doesn't have to be white; it's any area without text or graphics. White space is what makes a resume scannable and comfortable to read.

A resume crammed with text from edge to edge is exhausting to scan. Good resumes use white space intentionally: margins of 0.5 to 1 inch, line spacing of 1.0 to 1.15, a visible gap between each section, and bullet points instead of paragraphs. If your resume feels cluttered, you usually have too much content, not too little space.