The strongest signal on a resume page is contrast, and most templates spend it on the name. Banner spends it on the section boundaries instead — the place a skimming reader is actually looking. Section titles are set in letterspaced caps on a 10% tint of the accent, so they register as landmarks at arm's length while staying quiet enough to read up close.

Everything else is deliberately restrained to pay for that: entries are one bold line (company and location), one italic line (title), and bullets. The accent appears in exactly three more places — the rule under your name, the dates, and the skill-group labels. Add more color and the bands stop being landmarks.

The tint is derived from whatever accent you pick rather than fixed, so switching to burgundy or forest re-colors every band, rule and date in one move and the page stays coherent.

Bands eat vertical space — roughly a line and a half per section — so a resume that already fits one page by a hair will spill onto two. If you're fighting for space, Compact or Jake's gives that room back.

One caution that has nothing to do with us: colored bands print at the mercy of the printer. If you know the resume will be printed on a machine that struggles with solid fills, print a test page first — or pick a rule-based template like Left Rule, which needs no ink coverage at all.