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Do this ...
Make text simple, direct, and large enough to read so that your message comes through loud and clear!
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... not this
Make text convoluted, impenetrable, and small enough that viewers will go away.
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Title and major headings should be readable from 2m away.
Headings carry your main message and can attract viewers to your poster.
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Headings are to be small, so you can fit everything in.
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Supporting material should be visible from 1m away.
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Only text that lacks intrinsic content - like "Results" - should be readable from 1m away.
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Details should be kept to a minimum, and still visible from 1m away.
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Make text tiny, as in a published paper, so you can squeeze in all the detail.
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Avoid long lines of text.
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Make lines of text so long that the readers lose their
place when trying to find the next line.
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Keep text blocks compact - single spaced and 50 words or fewer - and
separate with white space.
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Create long text blocks and word hard to fill all available space.
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Use straightfowrard left-justified text, with ragged right margins,
for clean word spacing and ease of reading.
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Center-, right-, or full-justify large blocks of text, to
increase the difficulty of reading even further.
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