e225 – Fonts, Spacing, and Alignment: The Typography Toolkit for PowerPoint

Show Notes – Episode #225

This episode of The Presentation Podcast dives deep into the role of typography in PowerPoint presentations. The hosts discuss font selection, line and paragraph spacing, alignment, visual hierarchy and more. Plenty of practical tips and frustrations of typography formatting within PowerPoint are shared, along with comparing PowerPoint’s features to other advanced design and desktop publishing tools. Solutions to common text formatting challenges in PowerPoint are also a big part of the conversation…because effective typography is essential for clear, professional, and engaging presentations.

Highlights:

Importance of typography in presentation design.
Visual hierarchy and its role in guiding the viewer’s attention.
Key elements of typography: such as font choice, line spacing, paragraph spacing, and alignment.
Best practices for typography in presentations.
Challenges and limitations of PowerPoint in managing typography effectively.
In detail discussions on typography elements and how to set them within PowerPoint’s formatting tools, like kerning, character spacing, line breaks and more.
The wish for better advanced typography features and styles in PowerPoint to enable better design, layouts, and consistency.