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Whatever text you decide to place onto your board, if any, must be clear and straight forward. This is so that your audience can grab your main ideas within seconds rather than minutes.

You can play around with different fonts, sizes and colours, but remember to choose your fonts wisely. Here are some examples of some good and bad fonts, from an audience perspective.

As you can see from the examples above each of the fonts under the heading 'Good Fonts' offers a much cleaner line and are much more simplified, although probably 'boring!' The fonts under the 'Bad Fonts' heading however, although they look nice and 'pretty'- from a distance the impact they have lessens as the viewer won't be able to make out what it says from the distance at which they stand.

So, when choosing a text make sure that you always stand away from your work to make sure that what you propose to write can easily be seen from a viewing distance.

Also, your text should never cover over an important image on your board otherwise the impact of the image will be lessened, and the overall look of the board will be lost.

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