Two final notes: First, once you’ve decided for a certain pattern of font sizes, stick to it. Header of a text box ( What’s that?): Between 12 and 18 Action title ( What’s that?): Between 16 and 20Ĭ. Title/header of the slide: Between 16 and 24ī. Here’s my general recommendation for font sizes:Ī. So it’s just natural that there is a maximum size for font to look good before it seems to be out of scale.

A Powerpoint slide has certain size that is fix and can’t be changed. Why shouldn’t you go bigger than that? Well, it just looks disproportional. That’s the biggest font size you should apply anywhere on your slide (apart from the title page, maybe, and even there you don’t need anything bigger than 40), and even this is only recommended for the slide title. In fact, it works the opposite way: There is a “no bigger than …” rule! No bigger than 24. So, believe me, there is no “no smaller than…” rule. And, moreover, don’t forget that there are slides that are not presented to an audience, but are supposed to be read sitting in front of a PC monitor or in a printed version. The readability does not depend so much on the font size, but rather on the size of the screen the presentations is displayed on and on the distance between the screen and the audience. In some Powerpoint tutorials, manuals or so-called “styleguides”, you will read some recommendations like “never use any font size smaller than 18 or no one will be able to read it” or something like that. This is much more difficult to answer since there is no “right” size. This brings us to the second topic, which is the font size. And don’t get me started on “fancy” font types like Comic Sans MS or Lucida Handwriting! Please do not use Times New Roman because you are used to it from MS Word – it just doesn’t look good in Powerpoint, neither do other font types with serifs.

Other sans-serif fonts like Calibri or Candara are also ok, but Arial still works best. It is simply the best font type for Powerpoint. When it comes to font, there are two important aspects: The font type and the font size. This entry was posted in Powerpoint in Style on 8.

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