Visual Aid Styleguide

This Visual Aid styleguide, 2.0 addresses many of the issues that a presenter faces when designing their presentation materials. It covers the use of text, bullet points, and common punctuation errors.

• Text
  • What kinds of fonts to use in presentation materials
  • The use of text formatting such as bold, italics, text size, etc.
• Bullet Points
  • Strategies and styles to use in order to communicate well
• Punctuation
  • examples of Do’s and Don’ts

Over the past few months I have been collecting and analyzing some of the errors that I see in presentations. I’ve put together this style guide to help presenters ensure that their presentation is professional in appearance and accurate in content.

There are plans to expand on this guide, but for now, these three areas are covered. Check back in a month for an expanded version

Adobe Kuler, Color Picker

This has got to be the best color-picker available ( http://kuler.adobe.com/ )on the internet. It is much more flexible than any other i have found, and by far the easiest to use.

Select the color relationships you want and drag the sliders to adjust the colors and tones. The corresponding tones and are adjusted automatically for you. At the bottom of the screen is you can see the values in different color spaces.

For presenters using PowerPoint, the RGB values will be the most useful. Just copy these RBG values into the the PowerPoint color-picker.