Tips to Make Presentations Presentable

Page Set-up
         Use landscape set-up.

Color for projected or monitor display

• Background:  Use black or the darkest shade of blue or green.
• Foreground/Text:  Use white, pale gray, or yellow shades.    Hints:  Do not use shades of red.  Yellow is great for highlighting.

Color for Transparencies

• Background:  Use light colors or no colors.
• Foreground/Text:  Use black or other dark colors.

Text Style
         Use a sans serif text style.  Suggested fonts are:

• Arial
• futura
• avant garde
• helvetica
• Use bolding to emphasize words.
• Do not use italic type (exception:  scientific names).
• Avoid using ALL CAPS.

Text Size

• Use text sizes greater than 36 pt. for titles.
• Use text sizes greater than 32 pt. for main text.
• 24 pt. is lowest you should go.

Rule of Seven

• Use seven words per line.
• Use seven lines per slide.
• Avoid crowding text and images.
• Space lines for legibility.
• Be consistent.
• Spell Check.