Cover Letter Fonts & Size Choices

A cover letter benefits from a clear reading face and a visual relationship with the accompanying résumé. Start with the employer’s instructions, then choose a consistent family and a comfortable size.

The collection is a starting point for comparing letterforms. It does not promise that a font used for one project, brand or period is identical to any of these families.

Arimo and Carlito provide straightforward sans comparisons, while Lora offers a serif direction. The editable specimens show design differences; they do not establish an applicant-tracking-system ranking or promise an employment result.

Explore the full profiles for Arimo, Carlito, Lora. Each includes its own project description and source license, so you can judge the actual design rather than the category name alone.

Harvard’s career guidance recommends keeping the letter and résumé typography consistent. Try a real opening paragraph and contact line, then review the exported document at normal size. Do not squeeze a long letter into tiny text merely to preserve one page.

Use the same wording and approximate size in each specimen. The size and tracking controls help you inspect the design; the PNG is a visual reference rather than a complete page layout.

Open a family’s official font page from its specimen when you want the font files. The selected source distributions include open licenses; review the license included with the specific files you obtain, especially if you plan to modify or redistribute them.

Copying ordinary letters does not carry these typefaces to a different app. Use a font-aware design tool or export an image when the appearance matters. For the character-substitution alternative, read Unicode text versus real fonts.