Can the sentence be read from the back even with a picture and an accent?
You have a palette. Today a check. Illustrator offered colours. Now: can the sentence be read from the back even with a picture and an accent? Grey type on a photo dies. White text on a light part of a photo dies.
Imagine a white title on a light sky of a photo. From the back nothing. A pink accent on orange. Nothing. Either a strip, or the picture down, text on the background area. Prep again. Stricter, because you have a picture on the slide.
Rule: a phone photo from the end of the room. Cannot read it? Darker type, a lighter area under the text, or the picture off from under letters. No type shadow instead of contrast. A shadow is a trap.
Rewrite an automatic theme with light grey type. A template is not the teacher. The teacher is the back row. A photo from the end of the room. Cannot read it? A strip under type, the picture beside, turn a shadow off, darken grey. Grey type on a photo dies. Separate text with a strip.
Klára put a white title on a light sky of a photo. From the back nothing. A pink accent on orange. Nothing. Marek put text on a solid strip, the photo beside as proof, not under letters. From the door the sentence lives. In the evening Klára took the picture off from under letters and put it under a strip. She said wallpaper looked like a film. Like a film and unreadable. Today a test from the end of the room. She took the picture off from under letters. Title 40 could be read again. Dad held the account. Wallpaper under text vanished. A pink accent on orange nothing too. A strip saved the sentence.
Separate text from a photo. A background strip under type. A picture beside, not under. Turn type shadow off. Contrast is type colour against an area, not fog.
Text on an area, a picture beside, not under letters
Present (F5), a phone from far away. Read the title. Will not go? Separate text from a photo. A background strip under type. A picture beside, not under.
Turn type shadow off. Darken type on light. On dark, white. An accent only on a figure, not on a whole sentence. The same test on a slide with a chart. Numbers on the axis readable? A grey axis on grey? Darken.
Slide → Change background not to a photo under letters. A photo is proof in a box. Wallpaper under a sentence is a trap from Prep. It holds stricter, because now “prettier” picture tempts wallpaper.
Rewrite a template with grey type. The back row is the test. Not a preview on a laptop from thirty centimetres. Slide → Change background not to a photo under letters. A photo is proof in a box. Wallpaper under a sentence is a trap. Rewrite grey type. A door test, not a laptop up close.
Wrong: white type on a cloud, grey bullets, a pink accent on an orange strip. From the back fog. Teacher: nothing.
Right: Marek. A strip. A photo beside. Sentence 40. A chart with a dark axis. Klára after separating the same.
An example from a report: a map as a background under text dies. A map in a box beside a sentence lives. The same file, different contrast. A grey axis on grey dies. Darken. Type shadow must not replace contrast. The test is the door, not a laptop. A map as wallpaper dies. A map in a box beside a sentence lives. A chart with a dark axis lives. A grey axis on grey does not.
Rewrite an automatic theme with light grey type. A template is not the teacher. The teacher is the back row. Type shadow must not replace contrast.
Four things you will build in this course
The course has four small projects. You do not have to do them all at once. Today you add only this:
🎯 A hobby in 5 slides
Five slides about something you like doing. One sentence about what it is. No paragraphs from your notebook.
Hobby: a photo of a scene beside a sentence, not as wallpaper under it.
📚 A report
Eight slides for school: a start, three proofs, an end. The title on every slide is a sentence, not “Slide 3”.
Report: eight titles must survive a test from the end of the room.
📊 Survey results
A chart from a table (not a screenshot from chat) and under it where the numbers come from.
Survey: an axis and numbers in a chart contrast too. Grey on grey dies.
⚖️ A defence
You say one sentence, show proof, answer “and what if…”. If you do not know, you say I don’t know.
Defence: a panel from the back. If they cannot read the sentence, they cannot see proof.
A test from the end of the room
Present, a phone from far away. Cannot read it? Separate text from a picture. Turn a shadow off. Darken grey type.
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Present (F5), a phone from far away or step back to the door. Read the title. Will not go? Separate text from a photo. A background strip under type. A picture beside, not under. An adult account.
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Turn type shadow off. Darken type on light. On dark, white. An accent only on a figure, not on a whole sentence.
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In PowerPoint almost the same: Format background, type on the Home menu, turn a shadow off. The same test on a slide with a chart. Numbers on the axis readable? A grey axis on grey? Darken.
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Rewrite a template with grey type to almost black or white according to the mode. A template is not the teacher.
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Drive a tick. The workshop ends when the sentence from the end of the room lives even with a picture beside. Wallpaper under letters is gone.
Wallpaper, or a box
A photo under letters is wallpaper. A photo beside is proof. Take wallpaper off.
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Take a photo off from under the title. Put it under a strip or beside.
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Turn type shadow off. Darken grey text.
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Present (F5) from far away: can you read the sentence and a chart axis?
Now you 💪
- The title can be read from the back even with a picture on the slide.
- A picture does not lie under letters as wallpaper.
- Type shadow is off. Grey type is darkened.
Done when: The sentence from the door lives. A picture is beside, not under letters. Contrast holds.
What to take from this lesson
- Contrast again, stricter, because you have a picture.
- Text on an area, a picture beside.
- Type shadow must not replace contrast.
- A grey axis on grey dies. Darken.
- The test is the back row, not a laptop up close.
- Names in the examples (Klára, Marek) are made up. Do not put your number, email or photo on a slide.
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