Re:Stop Using Arial and Helvetica (2013)
by captainmuon on Monday January 30, 2017 @05:10AM
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I recently went back to using Helvetica (well, Arial) more often. I have to do a ton of powerpoint presentations at work (at least two or three group reports a week).
In the beginning, my personal template used to be very complex. Header, footer, a cloud chamber image as a watermark, custom fonts. Over time, I simplified it more and more, removed the watermark, the header and footer backgrounds, and so on. The only extravaganza remaining was the font (Source Sans Pro, and Source Sans Pro Light for the titles... I found it looks quite elegant to make the titles lighter instead of bolder, they draw enough attention already.)
Long story short, today I just droped the custom font and went all Arial. I'm surprized how clean and professional it looks (like "I don't have to pretty up my slides, I have confidence in my content :-D"). I think I'm going to try this out for a while. It also has the benefit that everybody can now edit my .pptx files.
Re:Stop Using Arial and Helvetica (2013)
by cillian64 on Monday January 30, 2017 @07:41AM
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Could you post a slide for us to see? I've often had difficulties finding a place between "clean and professional" and "Rushed and amateurish" minimal styles.
In the beginning, my personal template used to be very complex. Header, footer, a cloud chamber image as a watermark, custom fonts. Over time, I simplified it more and more, removed the watermark, the header and footer backgrounds, and so on. The only extravaganza remaining was the font (Source Sans Pro, and Source Sans Pro Light for the titles... I found it looks quite elegant to make the titles lighter instead of bolder, they draw enough attention already.)
Long story short, today I just droped the custom font and went all Arial. I'm surprized how clean and professional it looks (like "I don't have to pretty up my slides, I have confidence in my content :-D"). I think I'm going to try this out for a while. It also has the benefit that everybody can now edit my .pptx files.