47. • This is 12 point type.
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48. • This is 18 point type.
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49. • This is 28 point type. This is about as small as you
ever want to go for projected presentations.
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50. • This is 32 point type -- a bullet size.
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51. This is 64 point. It’s a
good size for headers
and statements.
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52. All of that was in
sans-serif type.
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53. Examples of sans-serif typefaces:
• This is Arial.
• This is Century Gothic.
• This is Helvetica.
• This is Verdana.
• (All of these are 32 point.)
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54. (Serifs are those little tails
on the edges of letters.)
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56. Examples of serif typefaces:
• This is Georgia.
• This is Goudy Old Style.
• This is Palatino.
• This is Times New Roman.
• All of these are also 32 point.
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57. Be wary of novelty typefaces.
• This is braggadocio.
• This is Brush Script MT
• This is Colonna
• This is Curlz
• This is Herculanum
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58. What if you wrote
everything in Curlz?
• It would be harder to read, for one thing.
• It also tampers with your ethos.
• This is not a very professional typeface.
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83. Keep your text
simple and short.
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84. Limit yourself.
• No more than 2 typefaces and 3 fonts in a
document.
• Use one size for headers, one for subheads,
and one for body text.
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85. Why?
• Because huge blocks of texts on a screen
confuse the eye and overwhelm the mind.
Your audience will be much busier trying to
read it all than they will be paying attention
to you. You want to minimize the possible
distractions, because presentation situations
are generally distracting enough. People are
cold, people are hot, people are thinking
about what’s on TV tonight, and now you’ve
got them reading all this text. And it’s a lot,
isn’t it?
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86. • What’s even worse is when presenters minimize the font size in order
to fit more stuff on the screen. Then people have to squint, and they get
headaches, and they wonder what the heck is up with you and your
design skills. Why are you ambushing them with all this text? Do you
really need for them to read your presentation? No, not really. You
need to tell your story and use the PowerPoint slides to provide visual
emphasis of you major points.
• Folks who do this sort of thing usually also try to squeeze multiple
points onto one slide -- all in tiny type. And they go on and on and on
and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on with
the text because they’re trying to fill up space, because they think that a
really full slide is a good and important slide. This is rarely the case.
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87. Be clean.
• Highlight your major points.
• That’s all.
• You just want to drive them home
visually.
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