What are the appropriate colors for PowerPoint slides?
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Colors bring life to everything; let it be a painting, a picture, a magazine or a wall. It is only with colors can a presentation be made interesting and meaningful; and this stands good for PowerPoint presentations too. However, when using colors for the slides, it is important that the right color combination be adopted.
Colors tend to express your different moods in the presentation. Relaxation is expressed using the color green while red and yellow signify urgency and are used in immediate action scenarios.
The colors are aligned in a circle in the wheel, from red to blue like in the electromagnetic spectrum. The three colors of blue, red and yellow, when mixed can produce both well and horrid combinations. When making a PowerPoint presentation, the worst color combination is one where two colors are placed in the same region, while found opposite to each other in the color wheel.
It is important to avoid using color combinations of colors placed in the opposite sides of the color wheel. Red and green is a color combination that is okay for Christmas presentations; otherwise, it should be avoided. It is also not advisable to make a PowerPoint presentation using blue text on a yellow background as these colors tend to clash together and spoil the effect of the presentation.
When making a colorful PowerPoint presentation, it is important that you consider the color wheel as it is the hue and saturation of different colors that decides on the right color for the PowerPoint presentation. It is generally better to use matter of a dark text on a light background as this gives a more pronounced look to the presentation. Moreover, such a presentation is much easier to read than a presentation of a light text on a dark background.
When making a PowerPoint presentation, you have to use the draw toolbar to use the color palette or scheme of PowerPoint. Here you find the eight colors that are used for background, titles, text and lines, shadows and for the filling of images. When you start designing a PowerPoint presentation, it is important that you first modify the four colors of the color palette. This means the background, title text, shadows and text and liens. With this, you are sure that the chosen text color and background color are not the same.
If you have an intention of using shadow effects on any object found in the presentation, then it is better to select a color having a shade darker than the background image. This sis because lighter colors don’t look realistic in shadows.
When color is used in the PowerPoint presentation, it is important to preview the presentation in the speech room. This is because sunlight in the room, and the type of overhead lights used in the presentation may affect the quality of the image in the PowerPoint slide.
So make it a point to keep all these points in mind the next time you add color to your PowerPoint presentation to make the most of the presentation.