On Thursday, 21 April 2016 at 00:55:34 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
qznc <[email protected]> wrote:
On Wednesday, 20 April 2016 at 07:53:53 UTC, Benjamin Thaut
wrote:
Many programmers (me included) are not good with picking
colors and thus presentations usually don't look as good as
they could.
My advice for "graphical-design-challenged" presenters would be
* If you feel unsure about colors, then don't use them. Black
on
white is enough.
Syntax highlighting might be an exception, but even there
black
on white might be enough.
* Only use one font (including title page, footer, etc).
Use some default font (Times New Roman, Arial, etc).
* A second font, if you show code.
Use a fixed-width font for that.
The one you use in your terminal or IDE.
* Only use size, bold, and maybe italic for formatting.
Do not use underline, small caps, or other fancy stuff.
* Use a big font size.
* Left align everything. There is no law that you have to
center
anything.
Left align feels more structured, because everything lines up
on the left.
* Avoid bullet points.
Consider "one statement per slide".
Consider removing the bullets.
* If you have images, make them fullscreen.
Fullscreen also applies to diagrams, plots, etc.
A quick look through the old dconf videos tells me that for
example Walter mostly uses a simple plain black-on-white
scheme. However, the slides would benefit from being
left-alignment imho.
Great tips thanks. I use powerdot. I think a ppt template for
beginners would be great.
For the emacs users here :) (surely you know this yet) org-mode +
org-export allows you to write in a very light markup language
and export your work to several formats at once (this includes
several html5 backends, beamer backend, etc..).
And the editing experience with org-mode is superb, you can
collapse all your document, show the section you are working in
now, promote/demote headings, move headings (and hierarchical
content) up and down with a keystroke, and much, much more.
Antonio
