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Font Sizes for Presentations |
General Guidelines
- To ensure that your information can be read from the back and sides of the room, use a font size of 18 point or larger and avoid curved or rotated text. Remember that full page charts and graphs, particularly when they are imported from another software or scanned, are very difficult to read from the back of the room.
- Avoid trying to squeeze too much information onto one page or line. Industry standard is the "7-7 rule": no more than seven bullet lines per page, with no more than seven words per line. Use your AV presentation to summarize your main points rather than a verbatim copy of your remarks.
- Set at least 1/2" margins on each page edge to ensure that text will not be cut off when projected onto the screen.
Font Size Necessary to Mimic "12 pt" Legibility
| Audience Distance |
Projected Screen Width |
| 3' |
4' |
5' |
6' |
| 10' |
20 font |
15 font |
12 font |
10 font |
| 20' |
40 font |
30 font |
24 font |
20 font |
| 40' |
80 font |
60 font |
48 font |
40 font |
| 80' |
160 font |
120 font |
96 font |
80 font |
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