Dart117 | Mobile app design studio. We make beautiful website design & branding, iphone app design, ipad app design and android apps. We are passionate about the projects we work on and believe that this devotion shines through in our work. We created this presentation to share with you basic PowerPoint design principles. It will be great if it helps someone to create a slideshow that will present information better and more interesting visually. You are also welcome to check our website and follow us on social channels in case if you would like to know more about who we are and what we are doing. Enjoy!

1. 8 Tips How To Make
Your PowerPoint
Presentation Look
Great

2. Following our advices you
will learn how to make your
presentation riveting and
grab the audience attention

3. Use non-standard
fonts only for headlines
and subtitles1 For the main text you can
use a standard font like Arial.
Pick a font for text and headings
that match the overall style
of the presentation.
List of the resources
with free fonts:
myfonts.com
fontsquirrel.com
jovanny.ru
google.com/fonts

7. Pick up pairings of fonts
that match together for
headings and subheadings2 Pf Agora Slab
Pf Agora Sans Pro
Helvetica
Garamond Font
Museo Slab
Lato font
OSWALD FONT
Georgia
Bevan Font
Radley font
Georgia
Arial Font
Select two pairing fonts which
work together to achieve your
typographic aims. Some of the
examples of good pairing fonts
that we chose: use the fonts
that you’ve selected throughout
all the presentation. We
recommend not to add any
other fonts.

8. Material for font pairs with website — coolwebmasters.com.
PT Serif & PT Sans
Cowboyslang & Supria Sans Condensed Anodyne & Poulaire
Droid Serif & Droid Sans
Use recommended Google Font
Combinations that match
perferctly

9. Paid Resources:
shutterstock.com (one
of the most popular and
extensive photo stock).
activeden.net (loads of visual
materials at reasonable pricing).
Use images to illustrate your
thesis. In case if you have
a budget we recommend you
to buy pictures on photo stocks.
Feel free to check some of the
resources that we recommend.
Free resources: unsplash.com
(great website that shares
10 new hi-resolution photos
every 10 days).
tockvault.net
freephotosbank.com
imagefree.com
freeimages.com
Use more images —
3less texts!

13. Use Modular Grids
4 To create a perfect layout you
may use Grids and Guides.
Grids help you see the balance
and symmetry of a slide. It
also helps you to organize
images and texts on the slide.
We created several templates
with pre made grids — follow
the link to download it!
Download Grids
and Guides

15. You can download short
animated GIFs for free and
insert them into the document
as a regular image.
Just remember that GIF shows
correctly in PowerPoint format
(.ppt) and during the export to
PDF (.pdf) it will be displayed
as a regular image.
Download gif-animations:
ifun.ru/category/1
ffffound.com
Use animated
GIFs on the slides
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17. Use General Rules
for Using Text
Components6 Here are some simple rules
that can make your
presentation look more
professional:
1. Left align of the texts
2. Don’t leave single word
at the end of the paragraph.
Use Shiſt+Enter for word
wrap to the new line.
3. Don’t leave prepositions
at the end of the stroke,
bring them to the new line.
4. In case you need to use
dash — use Alt+0150
instead of hyphen.

18. Limit the use
of effects in your
presentation7 Shadows, strokes, frames —
all these effects are good when
they used properly. We
recommend to reduce the usage
of these effects in case if you
are not sure how to use them.

19. It’s easy to save document
as PDF - just click on Save - Save
as Adobe PDF. Main advantage
of saving documents as PDF
is that you can easily open that
document on any device without
any distortion.
In case if you would like
to edit your document
later — save it as
PowerPoint doc.
Save all documents
as PDF
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20. Created by George Telpis,
Senior graphic designer
Dart117 Design Studio
dart117.com
contact@dart117.com
All examples, free fonts and
grids can be download here.