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Projection Issues
People complain about not being able to read the lyrics on the screen during worship. What are some general rules for font size and which text colors work with what backgrounds?

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(Registered User)

Posted: May 07, 2007

A lot of it depends on the size and positioning of your screens. The age of your congregation is also important. Our screens are 10' wide, high up and quite far away (over 100') from the farthest seat. However, we also have a great degree of control over the lighting, and our projectors are DLP with a native 1024x768 resolution. I've gotten away with font sizes as small as 19 points, but that's pushing it. The number of lines is more important than the point size. If your screens are small and far away, you need fewer lines. Kevin's guidelines here are spot on. We have a lot of seniors in our congregation. I have developed a friendship with one of the older gentlemen who sits in the back. If Bob can't read my screens, I make adjustments. It started with complaints from him, but I listened, and turned it into a very valuable resource. We've gotten virtually no complaints since Bob started chiming in.

Walt Daniels (Guest)

Posted: September 30, 2006

We have used fonts as small as 24 pt. The size that will be readable really depends on the font type, the background, and the method of displaying the text. Stay with a font that is a basic block type. I have found using the shadow effect in PowerPoint made the text look more blurred. A better alternative was to slightly decrease the contrast and brightness of the picture in the background. The text tended to pop out as if it was meant to be in the foreground. We use mostly white text on all our backgrounds. Using a software system (e.g. MediaShout) that displays text with TRUE outline capabilities really makes a big difference especially with moving background video. TRUE outline capabilities will put a black edge both inside and outside of white characters. This makes the text pop-out to the foreground. When using a 17” or 19” screen step back 10 or 12 feet and see if it still is readable. Remember that not all folks will have 20/20 vision though.

FreedbyJC (Guest)

Posted: September 27, 2006

Excellent techinical numbers in previous post but the presentation slides are to be read by the congregation so ensure that the differentiation between the backgrounds and the works are sharp and precise. Have some one WHO SINGS, 'sing the slides' to ensure that they can be read AND SUNG phrasically. Worship Songs are poetry and the slides should reflect that meter and lilt of the song.

Kelly Welty - kelly@tlc.org (Guest)

Posted: September 13, 2006

Good advice below, I would simply add that we use strictly WHITE text with a BLACK drop shadow for ALL of our song slides, and we use a sufficiently dark background image to make it stand out. How big a font size appears on screen is a factor of the resolution your slides are created in. In other words, if your slides are 800 X 600 pixels, use at least a 40 pt font. If your slides are 1024 X 768, use at least 75 pt. "Sans serif" means use a font that is simple and blocky enough to be easily readable. We like Century Gothic BOLD! Most of our slides have fewer than 5 lines on them, but we have a very alert person running the slideshow that can keep ahead of the music!

Kevin Miller (Registered User)

Posted: September 12, 2006

Guy Kawasaki, at his blog (http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2005/12/the_102030_rule.html), recommends the 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint: "... a PowerPoint presentation should have ten slides, last no more than twenty minutes, and contain no font smaller than thirty points." Why? "Ten is the optimal number of slides in a PowerPoint presentation because a normal human being cannot comprehend more than ten concepts in a meeting..." and "orce yourself to use no font smaller than thirty points. I guarantee it will make your presentations better because it requires you to find the most salient points and to know how to explain them well."

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