[mso] Re: PowerPoint: Suggested Colors?

All the advice you have been given so far about color choices for
presentations is great. I just have one thing to add: Please keep the color
combinations simple and see-able. Keep in mind that in almost any audience
that has more than 10 men in it, you are likely to have at least one person
with color vision problems. These problems can cause your information to be
not seen, seen wrong, or seen opposite of what you want seen.  It is always
a good idea to avoid the following combinations:
- Red on green or green on red
- Red on pink or pink on red
- White on pink or pink on white
- Green means one thing, red means another
- Blue on blue or purple on purple

There is a great resource on the web about color vision problems. This site
covers how things are seen by the various types of color vision, offers you
the chance to see your site (or in this case PPT presentation) as the
various color vision sets do, and also offers great advice on avoiding the
problems in the first place.  The URL is:
http://www.vischeck.com/

(Please know this is one of my pet peeves within the Powerpoint industry. I
am the daughter, wife, and mother of people with color vision problems and
no two of them are related. It is a wider spread problem than most people
realize.)

Kathryn Jacobs,  Microsoft MVP PowerPoint
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