Slide template suitability for projector presentations

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Slide template suitability for projector presentations #139

Closed ecayer closed 3 years ago

ecayer commented 5 years ago

A lot of the slides have very small text.

I was advised years ago, and I've found it a useful guideline, that for presentations on a projector, 20pt is the smallest you can go without losing legibility.

In this template, lots of the attractive slide designs, which I love because they save us from evil bullet points, also have very small text. I've felt inhibited from using these for anything which might ever be projected. Or I end up resizing and reformatting text on the slides, so they are decidedly less attractive than how it was designed.

I would love for a refreshed or extended template to have more slide options which take projected presentations into account!

cmajel commented 5 years ago

This came up again during the team coffee as a pain point, moving to the backlog for future sprints.

cmajel commented 5 years ago

@margaretmildrew would you be interested in doing some research on the font sizes used for different styles of presentations? I'm looking for specific guidance on what is most readable for different screen sizes (particularly stage presentations)

margaretmildrew commented 5 years ago

@cmajel I can definitely do that!

cmajel commented 5 years ago

@margaretmildrew welcome back! 🎉 do you have time to pick this back up?

margaretmildrew commented 5 years ago

Thank you!! Glad to be back online! @cmajel I can definitely continue looking into this! I'm slightly stretched on time right now since we're going into midterms at school, and I have a project from the TTS Outreach director due toward the end of October-- do you have a deadline in mind that I should have this research pulled together for you?

cmajel commented 5 years ago

@margaretmildrew there isn't a deadline, but do you think you could get us a few resources by the end of the month?

margaretmildrew commented 5 years ago

@cmajel Attached is a document with my research on this topic- I've included source links. Looks like the average suggested font size is 24pt. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1126pdkaMjZ9IShNC8a_z25qUQt-ZcF7GqVMgOEgKSyE/edit

cmajel commented 4 years ago

@margaretmildrew thanks for all this great work! We're hoping to pick this back up again soon. I've started a playground to experiment with different a min size of 22/24px and how it would affect common layouts.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1de8F-_9TUpVnYSDR9azA1-CZKSZkbVfmiWpVfWoSwJY/edit#slide=id.g7665cf2900_0_5

cmajel commented 4 years ago

Per convo with @igorkorenfeld. Some possible paths forward:

Guidance slide on how to adjust by presentation context
Demo layout with scaled up text
Promoting guidance in other places (like Project resources, pinned in channels, identity site, others?)

igorkorenfeld commented 4 years ago

This deck is organized by suitability for projectors or not, let's revisit when in-person meetings start happening again.