General Slide Layout Hints and Tips

Type Basics

• ALL CAPITAL LETTERS are hard to read.
  • Capital letters lack ascenders and descenders making them less distinctive.
  • Over 95% of all printed material is lowercase letters.
  • Because of this, people tend to be slower readers when words are in uppercase or capital letters.

• Use uppercase letters for the first letter of all main words
  • Use capital letters (uppercase) for the first letter of all the main words (all but prepositions and conjunctions).

• Avoid abbreviations
  • Abbreviations should be avoided unless you are sure that the audience will be familiar with the material.

• Punctuation marks can usually be omitted

• Usually punctuation marks (especially commas and periods) serve no function and can be omitted.

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