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Big bold font!

Most scientific presentations failed, among many other things, because the font presenters use is too small. F. that! Ditch the small font size! In most cases the smallest font size should be 48pt . You are not writing on digital paper. You are writing on a canvas.  Oh, but I have so much to say! Good for you! Now go and break what you have to say into smaller pieces! Large font sizes has one immediate effect. You have to write less per slide. And with practice you might achieve using text as a graphic element some month ago I dissect an example of a deck u sing text as a graphic element .

How to choice and download fonts using Google Fonts

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When it comes to choose and download fonts for either PC or Mac two sites come to my mind: dafont and font squirrel. However, I don't like them. They are more worry about themselves than with the content they provide.  And there is Google Fonts (or GF, for short).  I used to hate this site because I could not find how to download their fonts easily. But recently, Google Fonts (GF) got a facelift, and I really enjoy using it now.  All fonts in Google Fonts (GF) are open source and free. Right now there collection has about 800 items. It might seemed difficult to choose from such a big collection, but  GF offers some tools to help us narrowing down our options. Custom Text Ok, this is nothing new, but what I really like is that you can with a single click set the custom text to all items in the list. Search for number of styles, width and languages The search navigation allows not only to filter for Category and sort by date, popularity and trending, but it also allows y