A Guide to Preparing a Poster
A poster must present your IDEA about the topic and show why it is interesting and important.
Designing a poster is a challenge because space is limited. It must be clean, standing alone if you are not present, and gain attention as audiences come and go.
Some general rules
- Your poster should be about 20% text, 40% graphics, and 40% white space.
- Use the active voice on all text on the poster.
- Keep text to the absolute minimum.
- Text should be, at the minimum, twenty-eight or thirty-two points in size. Remember, for text, bigger is better.
- Posters are graphical presentations; emphasise your charts, tables, and photos.
- Backgrounds using light colours work well.
- Match your handouts to work with the poster elements.
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