YAMLResume v0.17: Accent Colors, the Kami HTML Template, and a 4.7x Slimmer Docker Image

YAMLResume v0.17 is out. The headline feature is a small option with broad reach: theme.colors.accent tints the highlighted elements of your resume—section titles, rules, links, and labels—across the LaTeX, HTML, and DOCX engines. v0.17 also ships a third HTML template, kami, a warm print-inspired design, and the Docker image got 4.7x slimmer.

Theme Your Resume with Accent Colors

The new theme.colors.accent option gives all layout engines a single, shared way to control the accent color of a resume, without affecting measurable layout geometry (page size, margins, font sizes) or section structure:

layouts:
  - engine: latex
    theme:
      colors:
        accent: burgundy

The option accepts one of nine named presets that follow the moderncv color scheme palette, or an arbitrary #RRGGBB hex color string:

theme:
  colors:
    accent: "#1B365D"

Each engine applies the accent in its own idiomatic way:

• LaTeX: the moderncv templates map the accent onto moderncv's color1, while the jake template defines a custom accentcolor for section titles and rules.
• HTML: templates expose the accent as a CSS --accent-color variable that tints headlines, section titles, links, and skill labels.
• DOCX: the calm template tints section headings and hyperlink text.

Here is the jake template rendered with four accent presets:

burgundy

cerulean

green

purple

Here is the kami template rendered with four accent presets:

burgundy

cerulean

green

purple

When the accent color is not set, every template keeps its default palette. The markdown engine ignores the option. And if you pick a color with very low contrast against the white page, yamlresume build warns you instead of silently shipping a washed-out PDF.

Kami: A New HTML Template

kami joins calm and vscode as the third HTML template. Kami (紙, "paper") is a warm, print-inspired design: a parchment background, a single Charter-based serif voice, small-caps labels, and quiet ink-colored accents, composed like a well-typeset report. It honors theme.colors.accent throughout, so it pairs naturally with the new theme option:

layouts:
  - engine: html
    template: kami

See the kami template documentation for details, or try it right now in the playground.

A 4.7x Slimmer Docker Image

The Docker image that ships the full yamlresume build pipeline—Node.js, the CLI, XeTeX, and all fonts—went from about 4GB on disk (1.77GB download) to 866MB on disk (321MB download), by replacing the full TeX Live installation with a curated TinyTeX install and pruning everything XeLaTeX never reads. Your docker run commands do not change, and the PDFs are byte-for-byte identical:

Read the full story—TinyTeX, font tree surgery, and why Perl had to go—in Slimming the YAMLResume Docker Image from 4GB to Under 1GB.

Anchor Navigation for HTML Output

One more improvement since the last release post: HTML output now emits fragment id attributes on every section and entry (showAnchors, enabled by default), so a generated resume can be linked directly at resume.html#work-2. Turn it off with:

layouts:
  - engine: html
    advanced:
      showAnchors: false

Get v0.17

Update with your favorite package manager:

$ npm install -g yamlresume@latest
$ yarn global add yamlresume@latest
$ pnpm add -g yamlresume@latest
$ brew upgrade yamlresume

Or pull the new image:

$ docker pull yamlresume/yamlresume:latest

Check out the installation guide to get started, and if you run into anything, open an issue on GitHub. The full list of changes is in the changelog.

Enjoy v0.17!