On Friday 15 October 2010 04:26:19 Liviu Andronic wrote:
> Dear all
> This is very off-topic. Yesterday I read a slightly disturbing article
> on the Economist ('Learning difficulties', [1]), which suggests that
> making textbooks (and presentations, I suppose) harder to read makes
> the audience better understand the material.Bhullfeathers! The reason you make textbooks hard to read is so the instructor and the college is needed. If you make them easy, like my books or the Unleashed books or the Dummies books, nobody would need college. > For example, one should > strive to use 'difficult-to-read fonts (12-point Comic Sans MS 75% > greyscale and 12-point Bodoni MT 75% greyscale)' instead of a > '16-point Arial pure-black font'. I'll say one thing. That's an excellent way to screen out everyone over 40, so that your audience will appear to be "young and modern." > > Does this make sense to any of you? Should I start preparing my > presentations in grey colour? Absolutely. Gray print on gray background is fantastic for keeping your audience in a questioning mood. :-) SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt
