Templates

Every Oleafly project starts from a template. The gallery gives you a real page-one preview of each one, so you pick by looking at the output, not by guessing from a name. Templates ship as plain, editable source, LaTeX, Typst, or Markdown depending on the template: what you create is yours.

The gallery

Click New project in the library (or type /create in the search omnibar) and the two-step dialog opens:

1. Choose a template. Browse by category in the left rail, type in the Search templates box, or narrow the grid with the filters: ATS-friendly shows only resume templates that parse cleanly, the engine filter picks LaTeX, Typst, or Markdown, and Offline shows templates whose assets are already on your machine. Every card shows a preview of the compiled first page.
2. Name your project. You’ll see the template’s full details: its preview, category, an ATS-friendly or Design-forward badge for resumes, the compile engine, and its license and author. Pick a project name (each template suggests a sensible placeholder) and a cover color, then hit Create project.

The catalog

Template	Category	What you get
Blank document	Blank	A minimal LaTeX article to start from scratch.
Blank Typst document	Blank	A minimal Typst document, compiled with the bundled Typst engine.
Blank Markdown document	Blank	A Pandoc Markdown document with YAML metadata.
Diagram / Figure	Diagrams	A standalone TikZ figure project; previews as an image and pairs with the diagram composer.
ATS Resume	Resume	Single-column, ATS-friendly resume with clean section rules.
Software Engineer Resume	Resume	A polished one-page SWE resume, pre-filled as a senior example so you edit instead of invent.
Sidebar Resume	Resume	Design-forward two-column layout: colored sidebar, photo placeholder, skills on the left, experience on the right.
Modern Resume	Resume	Single-column ATS-friendly resume set in the Lato typeface.
Typst Resume	Resume	A clean single-column Typst resume: quick to edit, ATS-friendly, compiled offline with the bundled Typst engine.
IEEE Research Paper	Journals	Two-column IEEEtran conference paper with figures, tables, equations, and a bibliography.
Academic Article	Journals	Minimalist single-column research article with abstract and bibliography.
ACM Article	Journals	The official acmart class: authors, abstract, CCS concepts, references.
Elsevier Article	Journals	The elsarticle class: affiliations, abstract, keywords, bibliography.
Homework Assignment	Assignments	Title block, running header, numbered problems with solution space.
Bibliography (natbib)	Bibliographies	A natbib + BibTeX starter with a sample .bib and citation examples.
Thesis / Report	Theses & Reports	Title page, table of contents, chapters, bibliography.
Typst Report	Theses & Reports	A structured Typst report with numbered sections, an abstract, and cross-references.
Book	Books	Parts, chapters, front matter, table of contents.
Beamer Presentation	Presentations	A beamer deck: title, outline, content frames, closing slide. Exports to PowerPoint too.
Newsletter	Newsletters	Masthead, lead story, short columns in a two-column layout.
Research Poster	Posters	A tikzposter scientific poster: title banner, author block, column blocks.
Monthly Calendar	Calendars	A one-page monthly grid with roomy cells.
Formal Letter	Letters	Sender and recipient blocks, date, salutation, body, signature.

That is 23 bundled templates. LaTeX templates compile with the bundled Tectonic engine out of the box, Typst templates with the bundled Typst engine, and Markdown templates through the managed Pandoc path. Each template includes its license text (all permissive).

Downloadable template packs

The bundled set is deliberately compact. Eleven on-demand packs add 99 more templates across academic writing, Beamer themes, business documents, conference preprint styles, coursework, creative documents, CV and resume styles, lab and technical reports, slides and posters, and journal or conference classes. Install a pack from Settings, Downloads and its templates appear in the gallery like any bundled one; remove it later to free space. Pack downloads come from a public catalog, so installing one needs a network connection.

AI-generated templates

With an AI provider connected, the Generate a template with AI button in the gallery takes a description of the document you want, generates the source, compiles a preview, and can save the result as a custom template that lives in the gallery alongside the bundled ones. Treat generated templates as starting points: model output and package compatibility vary, so review before relying on one.

Resume templates and ATS

The resume templates are split honestly:

• ATS-friendly (green badge): ATS Resume, Software Engineer Resume, Modern Resume. Single column, linear reading order, no layout tables, real text. These are built so applicant tracking systems extract everything.
• Design-forward (amber badge): Sidebar Resume. It looks striking, and the badge is your heads-up that multi-column layouts can trip strict parsers.

Whichever you pick, run Preflight before submitting: it simulates a resume parser against your actual PDF and shows what was extracted.

On-demand fonts (the Setup badge)

Templates that use premium open-source typefaces (like the Lato-based Modern Resume) show a small Setup badge in the gallery. Creating one triggers a one-time font download with live progress, and the fonts are copied into the project’s own fonts/ folder, so the project stays self-contained and compiles offline from then on.

You can pre-download or remove these font packs anytime in Settings, Downloads. Details in Settings.

After creation

The new project opens immediately with the template’s structure in the file tree: the main document, any .bib, and assets. Compile once (⌘↵ / Ctrl+Enter) and start replacing the sample content with your own. Nothing in a template is locked; it’s ordinary LaTeX you can reshape freely.