Pastel cards

SLOW SLIDES · ACADEMIC TONE

Pastel cards

A soft, calm scheme for teaching, posters and reflective talks.

Part one: setting the scene

What we will cover

Why

The motivation, in one paragraph.

What

The thing itself, with a small example.

How

A short walk-through.

A two-column slide

Hypothesis

Pastel palettes lower perceived information density, which helps audiences absorb dense slides.

Caveat

Soft colours can also flatten emphasis. Reserve a single accent for the one thing you really want noticed.

An image

A calm placeholder where your image would sit.

Image: placeholder. Drop your own in here.

A quotation

Make it boring before you make it beautiful.

— attributed to a workshop facilitator

A short code example

palette = {
    "pink":   "#f6d8d8",
    "blue":   "#dbe7f8",
    "green":  "#dbeede",
    "yellow": "#f8eccf",
}

Inline accent on the pink swatch and the blue swatch.

Thank you

Thank you.

Questions are very welcome.

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