Information Literacy: Communicate your information

Tips for posters

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About Information Literacy

STEP 1: STARTING out

STEP 2: FINDING

STEP 3: EVALUATE

STEP 4: Legal & ethical USE

STEP 5: COMMUNICATE

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Text size & font type on posters

Text size & font type are a very important aspects when designing a poster. They will determine whether your audience will be able to read your poster with ease. If not, all your hard work was for nothing.

Choose a font type that is easy to read, as in the following examples:


	Ariel font is an easy-to-read font.

	Courier font might be easy to read, but is probably one of the oldest, more boring fonts around.

	Italic fonts are not always very easy to read, especially on a poster, where people must read from a distance!

It is not easy to read words that are in capital letters, e.g. COMMUNICATION STYLES vs Communication styles
To attract your audience, they must be able to read your poster from a distance (1 - 3m), therefore font size is extremely important. These are recommended font sizes to use:


	Main title		100 points		At least 4 cm high

	Subheadings		50 points		Between 1.5 - 2 cm high

	Body text		25 points		Between 0.5 - 1 cm high