What font size should I use?
Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2024 4:11 am
We’re not saying nothing can ever go here as that would look a bit odd but you don’t want any key visuals or text there. When your design is complete you can remove the shapes from the master and they will automatically be removed from all your slides. This is also a useful technique if you know that there will be captions running across the bottom of your slides at the event.
Consider layout, flow, and transitions
So now you’ve got an overall story and you know what the opportunities and limitations of the space are. Next, let’s have a look at some ways to capture the audience’s attention in a conference setting. One of the first questions we hear is:
This is a really tough question to answer. It depends phone in malaysia on the scale of the screen. Firstly, text point size becomes less meaningful when the screen is huge. So rather than thinking in point sizes, think about the ratio of the height of the text compared with the height of the screen – this will give you a better idea of legibility. We’ve done a bit of an investigation into the optimum font sizes for different use cases before and you can find that here: Presentation font size: dos and don’ts
Better still, only use text where it is absolutely necessary. Having lots of text on slides is not best practice during a normal presentation, because it’s distracting for the audience to try and read while listening to you speak. And, for a conference presentation, it’s an even bigger problem because you’re presenting in a massive room; people are easily distracted and though the text will be hard to read they will try anyway. Save yourself the trouble! Instead…
Think minimalist design: The key thing to consider here is not to place too much content onto the slides. If you’ve got lots of information on a screen it’s going to be really difficult for the audience to understand which bit the presenter is talking about. This is especially true if the screen is super-sized and the graphics the presenter is talking about are nowhere near them so they can’t physically point out what they want to highlight. Less is more.
Consider detail level: While you want to keep the content simple, you don’t want simple graphics. The standard ‘toilet door’ icons you see everywhere might be great when they’re small thumbnails, but look terrible when projected six feet tall. Use more detailed icons, high resolution images, or even the illustrations available in PowerPoint (Insert > Icons > Illustrations), as they pack a punch on the big screen and help keep things appropriately scaled.
Consider layout, flow, and transitions
So now you’ve got an overall story and you know what the opportunities and limitations of the space are. Next, let’s have a look at some ways to capture the audience’s attention in a conference setting. One of the first questions we hear is:
This is a really tough question to answer. It depends phone in malaysia on the scale of the screen. Firstly, text point size becomes less meaningful when the screen is huge. So rather than thinking in point sizes, think about the ratio of the height of the text compared with the height of the screen – this will give you a better idea of legibility. We’ve done a bit of an investigation into the optimum font sizes for different use cases before and you can find that here: Presentation font size: dos and don’ts
Better still, only use text where it is absolutely necessary. Having lots of text on slides is not best practice during a normal presentation, because it’s distracting for the audience to try and read while listening to you speak. And, for a conference presentation, it’s an even bigger problem because you’re presenting in a massive room; people are easily distracted and though the text will be hard to read they will try anyway. Save yourself the trouble! Instead…
Think minimalist design: The key thing to consider here is not to place too much content onto the slides. If you’ve got lots of information on a screen it’s going to be really difficult for the audience to understand which bit the presenter is talking about. This is especially true if the screen is super-sized and the graphics the presenter is talking about are nowhere near them so they can’t physically point out what they want to highlight. Less is more.
Consider detail level: While you want to keep the content simple, you don’t want simple graphics. The standard ‘toilet door’ icons you see everywhere might be great when they’re small thumbnails, but look terrible when projected six feet tall. Use more detailed icons, high resolution images, or even the illustrations available in PowerPoint (Insert > Icons > Illustrations), as they pack a punch on the big screen and help keep things appropriately scaled.