Oh, Powerpoint, thou who art most presentable

A little off colour.

I’ve been making more use of Powerpoint presentations this year. I’ve largely resisted such idiocy over the past decade, but I’ve been a little more concerted in my efforts this term.

I’ve been trying to follow best practice, viz. not overlarding each slide with info, or if I do have a lot of ground to cover, it comes in bits and pieces so as not to overwhelm the little darlings.

So far my slides tend to be black-on-white, but I find them quite noisome to the eye, and in an attempt to make them less glaring, I threw a little colour into today’s Powerpoint presentation.

I don’t stray into the world of colour theory without some basic knowledge so that I know orange-on-green looks naff, but I didn’t have the time to iron out the aesthetic kinks.

At the moment, I’m wondering whether three shades of a colour might work best in some combination such as dark₁-light-dark₂, or two light shades and one dark.

I want something inoffensive to the eye and aesthetically agreeable at the same time. I could try shades of grey, but I think that involves spanking. Oo-er, missus.