In my last post 7 Secrets of designing beautiful PowerPoint Presentations I talked about downloading good looking free fonts from Google Fonts. Using a new font makes your presentation look better. Look at any website. Do they ever use Arial and Calibri? No. Because they want to stand out and make a better impression. But there is a risk of using special fonts. This was pointed out by a reader . Here is the remark : "The idea behind Google Fonts is great, however the drawback I see with this is that if you need to share the presentation with other team mates it is required to embed the fonts or have them installed on the user's computer." What is the problem of using special fonts? If you email your PPTX file and the recipient does not have that special font on her system, then you are in a soup. The computer will automatically replace your special fonts with some other font. The entire formatting will go totally bad. Your presentation might even look ugly. What ...

Do you want to improve the look and feel of your PowerPoint presentation? Do you want to make beautiful P owerPoint slides ? Here are 7 free websites that will be useful to you . I personally use these websites when I make PowerPoint slides for my clients . #1 Google Fonts Google Fonts is the best website to get awesome fonts for your presentations. It is FREE and it is good. This site is not only used by professional presentation designers but also by website designers and everyone else. You see these fonts on mobile apps, posters, brochures and what not. Forget Arial and Calibri and try out new fonts like Montserrat, Open Sans, Roboto, Archivo Narrow and Oswald. Use these fonts and make your slides look positively 'different'. Your audience will like your slides a lot more. How to use Google Fonts? Visit Google Fonts . You can start by scrolling down. Take a look, have fun and discover new fonts. Or, you can start by applying filters. On your right han...