appropriate type size, typeface and visual aids by: sally allgeier
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APPROPRIATE TYPE SIZE, TYPEFACE AND
VISUAL AIDSBy: Sally Allgeier
TIP #1-PLAN PRESENTATION BEFORE CREATING VISUAL
AIDS
• Find out what you want your audience to know• Create visual aid to go along with that
TIP #2- USE VISUAL AIDS SPARINGLY
• They are an aid to your presentation not whole thing• Highlight• Key points
TIP #3-MAKE THEM VISIBLE TO THE WHOLE AUDIENCE
•Make the image big
enough on the
screen so the whole
room can see
TIP #4- TALK TO THE AUDIENCE
• Don’t talk to the screen• Eye contact• Don’t turn your back
TIP #5- AVOID LASER POINTERS
• Not n
eeded at all
• Slid
e should be easy
enough to fo
llow w
ithout
it
PICTURES & VIDEOS
• Less
is best
• Don’t fi
ll page
•Only w
hat is
necessa
ry
TIP #6- EXPLAIN RIGHT AWAY
• Once you show an audience something, that’s where their heads are• Once you are ready to
change subjects then flip sides
TEXT SIZE
• Title
• 40pt font o
r
bigger
• Subtitles
• 28pt to 32pt fo
nt
• Depending on
how much you
have on the sli
de
FONT•Distracting to use a wide variety• Something easy to read from front of room to back of room• To much is a bad thing• Little is better
• Reading slides=not listening to you talk•Use pictures, charts and graphs over text any day