Pick a background color

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Pick a background color

• Avoid bright colors
• Medium Tones
• Dark tones OK
• Blues, black and white work best
• Avoid angry or excited colors like red and yellow
  

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Avoid pictures for background unless muted or
used only for first slide.
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Backgrounds make things too busy
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Bluesy templates yikes!
Azure
Bluediagonal
Soaring
Lock key
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Use high contrast colors
GOOD
GOOD
GOOD
Brightondark
Darkonbright
EVIL
EVIL
EVIL
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Why high-contrast?

• Your PC screen is hi-res
• everything looks great
• dont trust it!
• big displays wash out colors
• always TEST on final equipment
• alter templates defaults as needed

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See for yourself

• Which line is easier to read?
• Which line is easier to read?

Which line is easier to read? Which line is
easier to read?
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Be font savvy

• Sans serif good
• Arial
• Arial Black
• Futura
• Tahoma

• Serif bad
• Times New Roman
• New York
• Courier

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Which is easier to read?
Lessvisualcomplexity
Strongerlines
Once upon a time there lived a yellow bear named
Pooh. He had a cat named Tigger and a law degree
from Texas Tech. He was allergic to chocolate.
Once upon a time there lived a yellow bear named
Pooh. He had a cat named Tigger and a law degree
from Texas Tech. He was allergic to chocolate.
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Dont waste bullets

• use
• no
• more
• than
• 6
• in a list

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Observe the limit

• 25

More looksbusy
words per slidemax
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Avoid death by cheese

• Weird sound effects
• Most transitions
• Flying text
• Strange animations
• Bad clip-art

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Clip-art Hall of Shame
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Content is King!

• Single phrases
• Short lists
• Questions for students
• Quotes
• Photographs
• Video

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Design Tips for PowerPoint

• 1st Backgrounds Templates
• Best fonts
• Bullets 6 is max
• Content is king!
• Words on a slide 25 or less
• Images key
• Content and layout provided by Professor Keri
  Stephens