The moderncv package provides a document class for typesetting applications (curricula vitae and cover letters) in various styles. moderncv aims to be both straightforward to use and customizable, providing five ready-made styles (classic, casual, banking, oldstyle and fancy) and allowing you to define your own by modifying colors, fonts, icons, etc.

moderncv should already be included in your installed LaTeX distribution. If not, you can get the tarball of the package from CTAN. Alternatively, you can also build the package from source by cloning the its GitHub repository and compiling the included LaTeX files:

latexmk -pdf ./template.tex manual/moderncv_userguide.tex

To get started on your own CV, use and modify the template file template.tex. The user guide can be found in the folder manual and contains additional information on what the document class offers. Take a look at it to see if this package suits your needs.

If you are using the academicons package in the template, you will need to use a Xe(La)TeX or Lua(La)TeX engine to render the icons. Otherwise, an alternative icon package will be used automatically.

As the main goal is to keep this package alive, it is maintained in a loosely structured team. You can contact us in our matrix room moderncv:matrix.org, feel free to join if you have questions or want to contribute. Development takes place at github.com/moderncv/moderncv.

moderncv is licensed under the LPPL-1.3c.

Original author: Xavier Danaux [email protected]
Original repository: https://github.com/xdanaux/moderncv

This repository is a fork aiming to maintain moderncv inside CTAN, since upstream has been dead since 2016.