A cover letter is a formal document you send along with your résumé. In this, you provide basic information to the employer and show your interest in a job or company. In terms of presentation regular cover letters and electronic ones, should not be colorful, messy or similar, instead, you should be quite concise and keep the presentation simple, and basic. It is recommended to use only one page as employers do not spend a lot of time reading the cover letter as well as a regular black font of appropriate in a white background. Thus, an electronic cover letter should be simple and basic.
Electronic cover letters are just the soft copy of the traditional handwritten cover letters. Mostly cover letters are scanned through equipment before it reaches a hiring manager. Hence it is important to make sure that the equipment has no ambiguity in processing the information provided in the cover letter. Having too much formatting and making it colorful and flashy will leave the scanning equipment confused.
Hence the electronic cover letter should be simple and basic.
