“Better Posters is now officially required reading for everyone who trains with me” – Jason Zevin “The blog to read if you need to make a poster (or are, like me, just obsessed with poster presentations)” – Tara Murray “Finally, someone who gets the power of the poster!!!” – Siobhan O'Dwyer “How did I not know about this blog!? WIN!” – Steven Hamblin “I highly recommend his blog for making better posters!” – Kerri Rawson “Looking forward to using the better (science) posters blog by for my next presentation” – excitedstate “Delicious” – helpful! I plan to share w/other students (there are so few resources on that topic).” – Jordan Eschler “It's super useful especially to those of us who have a hard time figuring out what is awesome and what is eye-bleedingly terrible.” – Miriam Goldstein “Conference season is descending upon us, and blog will save scientists a lot of grief” – Andrea Wishart “Liking Zen's Better Posters blog(.)” – Andrew McArthur “Take note poster presenters, this is good stuff.” – Chris Pickett “(Y)our blog is very helpful!” – chrisjar “What a helpful site!” – is fantastic! I commend you for your efforts- improving academic posters is a worthy cause.” – added to RSS reader.” – boas dicas!” – sollte auch jeder das Blog "Better Posters" lesen.” – Florian Freistetter, Astrodicticum Simplex “I’m loving & happy to find I’ve been following the rules! Will show this to ALL students.” – put up my poster, it looks fab thanks to – sure you read ” – this blog.” – Adrienne Roehrich And anyone who will listen.” – be compulsory reading for academics.” – Posters blog dispenses solid (much-needed) advice recognises synergy between aesthetics+info” – Jason Priem “recommending reading Better Posters Blog to sci presenters. “Was man alles beachten muss, um ein gutes Poster abzuliefern, an dem die Kollegen auch stehen bleiben, kann man im Blog Better Posters lernen(.)” – Alles was lebt “It’s better poster blog’s fault as to why my poster looks classy & timeless.” – Ricardo Vilain “It’s a resource badly needed.” – John Hawks I can’t possibly be as bad as some of them there.” – Anne Better Posters Blog is blowing my mind. “I find the Better Posters site comforting. “Better Posters blog is A - MAZE-ING” – A. “I want to passive-aggressively run around poster sessions putting up Post-it notes with his url on every poster.” – Dominque Not just bad, or unseemly ghastly.” – RobertSOakes “I wish there were more blogs on this subject(.) Mostly because most scientific poster presentations are absolutely ghastly. “The ‘Go To’ place to send students when they start preparing posters for their first scientific meetings” – Bora Zivcovik “Great blog with constantly updated resources.” - The Scientist magazine specific information on how to make a good poster is rare.” – Science Careers “Love the poster blog! I can’t even count the # times I’ve wanted to stage an intervention for a poster.” – the advice is top-notch. “One of my all time fave blogs - disclaimer: may make you obsessed with poster design.” - Megan Kobiela “just came across this utterly lovable site.” – Francesco Fiondella, website is the Holy Grail of poster making.” - Alex Warnecke “It is nothing short of The Bestest Thing Evah!!” – Ambivalent Academic His critiques and advice are spot-on.” – Liz Neeley “Every scientist should read Better Posters Blog. When face-to-face poster sessions return, consider it a challenge to make your poster ADA compliant! But I think this is a good example of a mismatch between the concern of many academics, which is “Show as much stuff as I can” and the concerns of people thinking about accessibility, which is, “Make is visible to as many people as I can.” Nor I am not saying your academic conference poster needs to be ADA compliant. I’m sure other nations have developed their own standard for accessibility. Of course, the ADA is not the only guidelines out there for making visual material accessible to many people. Those ADA requirements for signage asks for text that is much larger than I usually see when people talk about “minimum point sizes.” I usually see recommendations like, “No smaller than 24 points” (that was AGU’s recommendation last year for body text, for instance) – less than half the ADA standard. For ten feet, that recommend height of capital letters is 28.8 mm, which is around 120 points. If you are viewing from further away (as someone might be when reading your poster title, say), the required minimum size goes up. Point size is not a precise thing in digital fonts, so you have to double check the exact point size. That’s usually in the ballpark of a 66 point font. That is the usual kind of range people are viewing conference posters. The ADA requires that the capital “I” on signs be 16 mm tall if you are viewing from six feet or less.
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