Some Fonts Can Make Your PowerPoint Suck
For those of you who enjoyed Chris Arlen’s tips on great presentations and are wanting more, here’s a terrific follow up from my friends at Artitudes Design on chosing the right fonts. While we all yearn to be creative, sometimes sticking with the tried and true is the right strategic choice.
And the moral of the story? Always test your presentation on multiple machines to make sure the formatting hasn’t gone awry.
Some Fonts Can Make Your PowerPoint Suck
Andrea at Artitudes makes a good point that varying from standard Mac/Windows font families can be dangerous.
Hopefully design is based on the user as well as the audience. In the corporate world, PowerPoint decks get passed around a great deal. And they can really look botched up when your flashy non-standard fonts is automatically swapped out for a system font. Who wants your operating system making that decision?