Fonts - Good

• Use at least an 18-point font• Use different size fonts for your

title and points• Make sure your font is easy to

read in type, color, and size• No more than six lines of font on

each slide.

Fonts - Bad• If you use a small font, your audience won’t be able to read what you have written

• CAPITALIZE ONLY WHEN NECESSARY. IT IS DIFFICULT TO READ

• Don’t use a font that isn’t easy to

•Don’t make your words too big.

Color - Good

• Use a color of font that contrasts sharply with the background– Ex: blue font on white background

• Use color to reinforce the logic of your structure– Ex: light blue title and dark blue text

• Use color to emphasize a point– But only use this occasionally

Color - Bad

• Using a font color that does not contrast with the background color is hard to read

• Using color for decoration is distracting and annoying.

• Using a different color for each point is unnecessary

• Trying to be creative can also be bad

Background - Good

• Use backgrounds such as this one that are attractive but simple

• Use the same background consistently throughout your presentation–This means the same color scheme.

–Or the same type of design or theme, etc.

Background - Good

• If your background is blurry, don’t use it.

• Don’t use animated backgrounds.

• Try to stay away from pictures being your background.

Background – Bad

• Avoid backgrounds that are distracting or difficult to read from

• Always be consistent with the background that you use

Graphics-Good

• Use graphics that are related to your theme.

• Don’t put too many graphics on one slide.

• Don’t put more than one animated graphic on a slide.

Graphics-Good

• Make sure the colors of the graphic work with your background and words.

• Don’t let a graphic cover up your words.

• Don’t stretch your graphic so that it’s blurry.

Graphics-Bad

Spelling and Grammar

• Proof your slides for:–spelling mistakes–the use of repeated words–grammatical errors you might have made