#3 - COLOR!!!!
When designing graphics, you can easily forget the medium you intend to use to display the end product. In other words, what you see on your computer monitor is not necessarily what the jury will see when projected onto a big screen or on a printed posterboard blow-up in court.
As the case is presented, anything visually distracting, too bright, too dark, or too difficult to read will have a cumulative effect, eventually resulting in loss of focus, concentration, and of course retention. While the color white is the default for most document and graphics programs, it is not the best color when viewing different types of images. It is much easier on the eyes to use a darker color, such as gray or blue. You may certainly use other colors, but the idea is to soften the background so as not to make it more difficult to view the important part of the slide, be it a document, photo, or text.
For more information on color please feel free to refer to the "What Do Colors Really Mean" blog post done on Monday, August 3rd.
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