From the course: Corporate Video
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Optimizing fonts in a presentation for readability
From the course: Corporate Video
Optimizing fonts in a presentation for readability
- A lot of presenters choose their favorite font, or, perhaps, the company you work for loves their serifed fonts. When it comes to fonts for the screen, though, particularly if this is a video that's gonna get compressed and posted to a site like YouTube, it's really important to pay attention to font choice. Additionally, a lot of graphics in PowerPoint are gonna use thin lines. These can break up, or even completely fall apart, as you start to compress the video. So, let's go through the slides and keep an eye out for some potential problems. I'll just start at the beginning, and our first logo looks good, here. I notice that the colors aren't particularly overly saturated, everything's nice and readable, even though we have a mixture of serifed and sans serif fonts, this is our group's logo. On our next slide, here, we have some really thin lines. The text is also impossibly small, so it's really important that we start to modify this. Now, the font Arial isn't a bad choice, but…
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