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Counterpoint: be careful about going too far into the "cool" spectrum. When I've been hiring, the best-looking resumes were often the least qualified. If you're a visual artist, then sure, go nuts! But if you're a technical person then stick to the basics. Forcing someone to decode your pie chart to understand your skills is not a way to win points with a hiring manager. Go for bullet points, short sentences, correct grammar, and no spelling mistakes.

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As a hiring manager I've often noticed the same. There's a weak positive correlation between candidate quality and the resume being one page in LaTeX. There's a weak negative correlation between candidate quality and the resume being very graphically fancy. That said, I try to completely forget these correlations when reviewing resumes because it's just not fair to anyone for me to go into the process with preconceptions like those.

For better or worse I index the opposite way. My CV is a markdown doc wrapped in the absolute minimum html/js to render it as a web page. If viewed as text it is perfectly readable sans a single line of css gobldeygook, if viewed as a web page it’s also perfectly readable.

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