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Creating Academic Posters: Home

This guide provides helpful tips, technical guidance, and links to sample posters to help you create an effective academic poster.

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Recommended Settings

Title Font:  72-92 pt
Headings:  36-54 pt (use a san serif font such as Ariel or Helvetica)
Body Text:  24-36 pt (use serif font such as Times New Roman).  Avoid long strings of text and use bullet points instead
Captions – 18-20 pt
No more than 2-3 font types
Your poster should be easily visible from 6 feet away!
no more than 5 colors (if you have a striking central image, make it the basis of your color scheme)
minimum figure/image size:  5 x 7 and all images should have captions
White background - 40% white space

Print your poster at the UNO Library

Full color poster printing on satin quick dry paper

Price:  $5/linear foot

Request a poster printing appointment.

 

TIP: MS Publisher allows you to create custom page sizes. Use this software to verify that your images and fonts are clear and easy to read based on your poster size. You can then save your completed MS Publisher file as a PDF so that it is in a printable format. The PDF file will retain the poster size you specified in MS Publisher.