Tag: graphics

Choose Your Font!

For a lot of reasons paper (and paper-on-glass) documents are with us for a long time. So it continually surprises me when I see documents in some basic, reduced readability font .

Even when we go to electronic systems that choice of font is going to be an important one. And it’s probably not the same font as what worked for you in a paper world.

And then there is all that training material and presentations (including conference material).

So spend some time and choose the fonts that works for you and your users. But please for goodness sake don’t default to a font because it is what you have always used.

I’m a huge fan of Roboto.

There was a nice writeup on fonts on SlideModel: 20 Best PowerPoint Fonts to Make Your Presentation Stand Out in 2023

Leveraging some graphic resources

Let’s be honest – slides and presentations from quality professionals tend to be text heavy and graphic poor. I’m no expert here, but I have settled on a few subscriptions that help me produce fair to middling presentations and graphics.

  • SlideModel, SlideGeeks, SlideTeam – You probably don’t want all three (or one of the other competitors) but have a subscription to just one of these have saved my sanity more times than I can count.
  • NounProject – Oh how I love the icons this organization makes available. I use them everywhere! Presentations, procedures, technical systems. Great price structure, decent licensing. Now with a decent photo library too. Someday I will organize one of their Iconathons for developing a good set of icons around quality principles and tools.
  • Photolibrary – So many free and low priced ones out there. I don’t use photos nearly enough but I keep up a low level shutterstock subscription and use my monthly quota.

My goal this year is to use more graphics in my blog. Well actually my goal is to post more this year, 2020 was kind of a wash.