Lighten up

light shades of grey, rather than filling a big slide object with a very dark grey. Consider using dark grey for your font colour instead of pitch black. … Lighten up … or highly contrasting greys (dark on a white background, light on a dark background) when you want an …

Keeping the suspense

, congratulations, thank you’s. Photo by Malcolm Lightbody on Unsplash … malcolm-lightbody-Uv7_yryr6IM-unsplash.jpeg …

Lighter shades for bright colors

Lighter shades for bright colors … are highly saturated, the suggested lighter shades of your color will be too bright to use as … keeping all other variables the same. Use a lighter shade of this new base color instead and save this as …

Traffic lights in PowerPoint

light slide in the store, subscribers can download it free of charge. … Now and then, I use the good old traffic light chart to present the progress in a project: who has … traffic-lights-in-powerpoint.png … Traffic lights in PowerPoint … given "the green light" and where things are still stuck. These icon-style shapes are easy to create …

Lighter variants of your presentation color

Lighter variants of your presentation color … )aturation value, while keeping all other variables the same.Use a lighter shade of this new base … your template contains colors that are highly saturated, the suggested lighter shades of your color …

Calibri light

default Microsoft Office font on my Mac. But the light version of Calibri (Calibri Light) looks … accents. Calibri Light comes installed on Windows 8 and Windows 10 machines, not 7. Goodbye Arial. Image on WikiPedia … Calibri light …

Light or dark mode?

. Light tightens the iris, and and a smaller iris can focus better. (Think squinting and pinhole cameras … the 1980s, when screens went the other way: light backgrounds with dark letters, even on green and … amber monitors. Research (lots of it done in the 1980s), suggests that light backgrounds are better … overpowered by this big wall of light. (Dark backgrounds will encourage people to dim the lights in the … Light or dark mode? … and forth between light and dark is tiring. If the everyone goes dark, I probably have to follow …

Against the light

quality check of the Amsterdam office manager: holding the pages against a strong light to see whether … Against the light …

Light or dark background?

you see that a dark background works better. A light background on a huge screen overpowers the … presenter. For small conference rooms, a light background will do fine, and for reading on screen, a light background is actually better. … Light or dark background? …

Subtle light effects in fonts

effects, shadows, and pick inner shadow with light from the top In text effects, pick a text fill that is … Subtle light effects in fonts …

Dark or light slide background?

rooms, a light background work better. It is very inconvenient to edit and work with 2 masters of the … Dark or light slide background? … A dark or light background for your presentation slides? Dark backgrounds work better for very … , I recommend sticking to a light background for most business presentations, unless you have a very …

Chart concept - in the spot light

I saw this spot light concept in an invitation for an event. It can easily be recreated in … Chart concept - in the spot light …

Create your own buttons and lights on a metal skin in PowerPoint

Create your own buttons and lights on a metal skin in PowerPoint … increased the depth to 20. Light 3 and 4: a circle without an outline, with an central interior shadow …

Crisp napkins

are who you portray you are. Photo by Lightscape on Unsplash … lightscape-746384-unsplash.jpg …

Not just bold

Putting body text in a slightly lighter color gives you opportunities to emphasize words beyond putting them in bold. …

Make it personal

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Big PowerPoint fonts that don't scream

this Futura Light font that comes with PowerPoint 2007. (Don't forget to save it with your … always. And I am not a big fan of heavy bold characters either. Experiment with a lighter font, such as …

Most of my "chart concepts" on Flickr

Apologies for the lighter post content during the summer break. I scraped images of the various …

Interior shadows can be a nice change

background). Make sure the direction of the shadow is always vaguely similar to the lighting in the … background, the Amsterdam street lights in this case. Use a character color that is similar to the tone of the image. …

Happy 2023!

I am off the grid for a few days (finally had a chance to see the northern lights, see the image below). All the best for 2023! …