Dos and Don'ts of Designing a Research Poster by University of Guleph Library is licensed under a CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 international license.
Tips for Designing Academic Posters
- Organize content into clearly labelled sections
- Focus on key message for each section
- Represent your research with tables, charts and pictures- the less text, the better!
- Pick a color scheme
- Maximize contrast between text and background
- Use tools such as zoom and guides to align your content for a professional look.
- Reduce text with bullet points
- Use at least 18 pt font for body text.
- Use high resolution images (aim for at least 300 pixels per inch)
- Make sure you have proper permission to use the images on your poster, or...
- Find Creative Commons or other openly-licensed images to use.