Templates and themes
Choosing a look, which themes your plan includes, and why the theme travels with a duplicate.
A theme decides how your CV looks: layout, typography, accent color, whether there is a sidebar.
Choose theme shows what is available and what the current one is.
Plans
Your plan includes the default theme. Upgrade to use every theme.
The default theme is on every plan and is a perfectly good CV. Locked themes are marked Available on paid plans rather than hidden, so you can see what you would get.
Choosing one
Switching theme changes nothing about your content. It is the same CV, laid out differently, and you can switch back.
Look at the preview rather than the thumbnail before you commit. A theme with a sidebar behaves very differently with fifteen skills than with four, and only your actual content shows you that.
Accent color
Themes carry an accent. Keep it conservative for a CV going to a corporate client, where the document is being read next to twenty others and standing out on color is not the goal.
It travels with a duplicate
Duplicating a CV copies the layout and theme along with the content. That is what makes duplicate-then-adjust a sensible way to build a second version for a different audience.
Printing and color
Themes with a colored sidebar or header need the print dialog set to edge-to-edge, and Steerd says so at the point it matters:
Tip: for edge-to-edge color, set Margins to "None" in the print dialog.
See Preview and exports.