Power point presentation standards for Biomass2015 Outline and explanation John Smith PROJECT SHORT NAME ‘Long name of project’ is an international research project funded by the European Union’s Seventh Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under the grant agreement FP7-XXXXX Partner logo here Project logo here

Power point presentation standard for BIOMASS2015 BIOMASS 2015 Powerpoint presentation standard The purpose of this presentation is to set out the standards for Powerpoint presentations. It draws on a number of project identity elements to help generate a unifying ‘look and feel’ for project communications. Basic elements Use of Arial throughout Two heading levels: 22pt bold and 20 pt bold italics Two corresponding text levels: 20 and 18 pt 0.5 line space under headings 1.0 line spacing between paragraphs 1.15 line spacing in paragraphs

Power point presentation standard for BIOMASS 2015 Powerpoint presentation standard Arial is the standard font on all WATBIO material. Note: Office 2007 and later versions often default to Calibri font – but this appears fuzzy on many computer screen. Sarif fonts such as Times New Roman are not suited to screen reading. Arial is widely regarded as a ‘clean’ font for scientific and business communications

Power point presentation standard: Use of logos There are four logos to consider. The project logo is placed on the upper left corner. Two lines (10pt wide) pick up the blue and green in the logo and separate the slide title field from the main slide area. These are on the master. European logos All slides: FP7 bottom left, EU flag bottom right against a white background Partner logo On title slide only – top right – this is optional – otherwise no partner logo

A standard approach to supports the conference identity and makes sure the EU is correctly acknowledged General slide style The standard approach to PowerPoint slides has a number of characteristics: Slide title text is small enough to turn slide title field into statements (see above) Flexible: the largest heading text is large enough for slides that have only a few words

A standard approach to presentation supports the conference identity Non-text design elements Four standard colours plus grey Blue, green, orange, red These colours come from the default colours for the Conference Book. The colours are bright but not glaring. Photographs Present photos in a simple way: no rounding, reflections or shadows

In selecting colours, we should try to use colour schemes that unify outputs. Special features The logo’s yellow is available for some special features such as a text box or graph elements Special features The logo’s red is available for the same purpose – white text A standard approach to presentation supports the conference identity

Graphs Keep graphs simple. Keep in mind that graphs will be used in a wide range of situations and so a common approach helps. Use 12 pt arial for lettering and avoid effects such as shading, outline letters, etc., varying up 2pt either way where variation in size is required. Numerical axes take 4-8 major ticks, no minor ticks. Be consistent in the number of decimals. Gridlines should not be used. Pseudo-3D should not be used. A standard approach to presentation supports the project’s identity

Graphs Eye-pleasing graphs are often in the approximate ratio of 5:8. Symbols should follow a standard sequence. This sequence is circle, box, triangle, diamond. These can be plotted both open and filled, allowing pairs of treatments to be presented with corresponding pairs of symbols. The same symbol should be used for the same treatment throughout the chapter, wherever possible. 12 pt should be used as standard for symbols. A standard approach to presentation supports the project’s identity

The XXXXXXX consortium has XX partners: Dr Kai-Uwe Schwarz Project logo here

Project long name (Short Name) is an international research project funded by the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme under the grant agreement FP7-XXXXXX Acknowledgements Project logo here