What is Serif and Sans Serif?

You have probably heard these two terms sometime in your academic career (my guess would be collegiate, but it's just a guess.) So what does it actually mean? Urbanfonts has created this awesome infographic that really lays down the law between serif and sans serif! Take a gander!

tldr: Use Sans Serifs for presentations!

Font Tips for Presentations

This post was written by Tommy Gugino of Double the Trouble: My Life as a Fraternal Twin. For more shenanigans, visit his blog here.

My name is Tommy Gugino and I am a senior communication major with an emphasis in public relations from Las Vegas, Nevada.

So being a PR major, I look at a lot of advertisements and presentations every week with some of the ugliest fonts I have ever seen. If you know me you know that I am actually quite a font snob especially when it comes to presentations. Nothing bothers me more than a presentation with terrible font choices in them.

Here are six tips to consider when you build your next presentation.

1. Have a sharp contrast between the font and your background
2. Don’t use too many fonts in your presentation
3. Use readable fonts
4. Don’t capitalize all your letters
5. AVOID script fonts
6. Use italics sparingly

Sony's Embarassing PowerPoint according to @Gawker

Oh my goodness. This recently released PowerPoint from Sony is a tragedy, a trainwreck, and a perfect example of what NOT to do. Sony, please hire me and let me fix your mistakes.

Talk about too much text, inconsistency, and what the font choices?!

Check out this mess out for yourself.
 
Sony's Embarrassing PowerPoint

How to Create Presentations that Don't Suck according to @Lifehacker

Here's a super useful article on Lifehacker.com written by Melanie Pinola about creating presentations that don't suck. I strongly agree on with problem 1. Too many ideas can really clutter your slide and your audience. Read through the article here